Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 81, 6 May 1908 — Page 2

THE RICHMOND PALLADIL3I AND SL N"TE LEG RA3I, WEDNESDAY, MAY 0. 1008.

jfAGE TWO. WEIGHTY PROBLEMS BEFORE CONFERENCE Supreme Lawmaking Body of Methodist Church Convened In Baltimore Today. ONE OF COUNTRY'S GREATEST HORSEMEN. HORROR AFTER 2C 'A IN THE H00SE0F DEATH! i (Continued From Page One.) . . , . . j grave for a period of about three months. i Found in Hollow Tree. Ilay Lainphere was arrested in a hoi- j low tree hi the woods in Springfield j township, the night of the fire, a week ago. He was taken to jail and since the finding of the other bodies the ex-. JJ4 TIVAL Auspices Druids May 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 Bcallview Park The Famous Robinson Shows Buckskin Ben's Wild West 800 DELEGATES ATTEND.

IMPORTANT AFFAIRS ARE NOW AT STAKE AND ALL ACTIONS TAKEN WILL BE OF IMPORTNCE BISHOPS TO BE ELECTED.

Baltimore, Md.. May C The .supreme lawmaking body of the Methodist. Episcopal church throughout the, world, the Quadrennial General Conference, assembled In Baltimore today. Every quarter of the globe was represented by the MO lay and clerical delegates, and the weightiest affairs of the church are now at stake. This conference is the twenty-fifth of the church and marks the one hundredth anniversary of the adoption of the constitution, of the Methodist Episcopal church, which took place in Baltimore In. IViS. The discussion, on Paragraph 2 IS of the Book of Discipline, which prohibits dancing, Ac, may be a lively and spectacular one. The effort to obtain a restoration of the itinerant pastor ate Is likely to lead to an acrimonious session. The most important action of the jrathering will be the election of new bishops. This year, at least eight, and probably more, bit-hops are to be chosen. In the four years since the last conference these six hishops have died: Bishops Merrill, Joyce, McCabe, Fitzgerald, Andrews and Fow ler. CITY MUST WAIT County's Share of Potter's Field Improvement Not Yet Paid. SETTLEMENT IN JULY. The county commissioners say the city may wait for the payment of the county's share of the expense of improving the potter's field at Earlham cemetery. The bill for the one half of the cost the commissioners agreed to bear, was presented to them this morn ing. It. calls or $:iN$.13. The county will be willing to meet the bill ! July r.t the time of the regular sett! ment of t lie poor accounts of the trustees. The contractors who did the work are making demands against the city. It was agreed the city should pay for the improvement and the county reimburse it to the extent of one half. If the contractors wish to sue they may bring their proceedings against the city, which was the ptrty to the contract and not against the county, as the commissioners had nothing to do with the awarding of the contract. WISH TO COLLECT FOR CRACKED STONE Bill Has Not Been Allowed County by City. The county commissioners wish to collect from the city for cracked stone the city purchased from the county, but not paid for. The stone was cracked at the county jail by the prisoners. The sheriff presented the bill to a city official and that was the last heard from It. At present the stone yard at the jail is vacant. There is no stone and so the prisoners are enjoying a holiday. In the interim they find employment mowing the grass on the court house lawn. There are between :o and 30O loads of cracked stone on hand at the jail at present. HAD NO BUSINESS. The board of public works met this morning, but with the exception of allowing a few claims no business was transacted. OPENING OF LEAGUE AGAINJOSTPONED Wet Grounds Responsible for Delay. Owing to the fact that, the bail park I At Van Wert is under water as the re- I suit of the dehme of the past few 1 days Manager Hunt last evening r.e-! lifted Manager Jessup not to brir.g his pam to that city today. It is hoped that the Van 'Wert grounds will be fit to play on by tomorrow. The IjOgansport grounds where the Mnncie and Huntington teams are scheduled to play this afternoon are reported to be In bad condition and it is probable that the game will be postponed. Athletic park today looked like an inland lake but it is hoped that the grounds will be vt condition for the local opening Friday, when the Richmond and Muncie teams cross bats.

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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Won Lost Pet. Indianapolis 11 Toledo 10 Columbus Louisville vj Milwaukee 11 Kansas City '. St. Paul r. Minneapolis 2 .tii7 .i;:'.'j .hi i .:!.-,:; .''7S .IIS n in ir. TUESDAY'S RESULTS. National League. New York 4. Philadelphia O. Pittshurg-Chirago Ha in. Poston 7, Hrooklyn !. American Association. St. Louis -J. Detroit 1. YVashington-New- York - Rain Philadelphia .", Hoston '2. American League. Indianapolis St. Paul o. Columbus ". Kansas City nings. Louit-viile "2. Minneapolis 1. Milwaukee-Toledo - Rain. 4; 11 inGAMES TODAY. National League. Cincinnati at t. Kmis. Hrooklyn at rhi'.adeiphia. Chicago at rittsbuig. Hoston at Now York. American League. Cleveland at Chicago. New York at loston. Philadelphia at. Washington. American Association. Toledo at Milwaukee. Columbus at Kansas City. Indianapolis at Paul. Louis i'.le at Minneapolis. WATERS RECEDING. i r.e swouen waters or t.'xe w nners of wa:rT river receded rapidly today. At no tone .(!' the s'rp.en nssnnie nrnnnN I s'ace. The heavy rains of Sunday i night. Monday nnd Tuesday, raised the river less than is usual with, a three davs downpour. Tattt: is very hieheet LiVlMi PALLADIUM WANT ADS PAY.

to intense that State's Attorney Smith j has decided to have the man removed j

to Michigan City, wnere r.e win be safer from molestation. j f - ri.,' -j t'- rrt fit ft lioW I Lamphere asked last night when told j $ of the results of the. day's find. I F "I always thought something was j g wrong." ! & Ianiphere, it is said had been seen i g wearing a fur overeoat answering the ! St description of one belonging to An- j drew Ileldgren when he came here in j February. Mrs. Ciunness also wore j tne coat on several cx-casions, aim when asVied concerning the purchase, stated it had been given her by an admirer. lamphere is also said to have exhibited a revolver recently, whii-h was supposed to have belonged to Andrew Ileldgren. "I might have to use it before long. Mrs. (innness doesn't like me." said Latuphere when arrested for interfering with the woman several weeks ago. "I know something which she wants mo to forget. I can't say what it is, but justice will be done at last." Had a Red Mustache. One of the unidentified male victims has a red mustache, which is the only mark which misht. aid in identifying him. There is little possibility of learning the names of the other man and woman, because nothing is left but, the skeletons. Lamphere is said to have been jealous of Helgelein and that, for this reason he burned the residence. As soon as it. was learned that Lamphere was in the vicinity of the. house on the night, of the fire he was arrested. I'ntil last night he knew nothing of the finding of the bodies. When told, he

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nearu inai iie ix)uie? iuiu ueeu louuu. i und. U- said: "I knew she was dangerous. Good heavens; she tried to get me to buy chloroform for her once. While Helgelein was there she wanted some poison. She always carried a big gun, and quite often told him t hat she would 111 me if I got gay with her. "Now that they are found I have come to see what was going on around there. Once the sweetheart of Miss Olson came to the house and visited with the family. He left, and a few weeks later his trunk was returned. It was always locked. A few days after it came I saw some clothes that he had worn around the house. "On another occasion, a large, black haired man came to the house and visited Mrs. dunnrss. He also disappeared. I also thought he went the route. "H '.( loin was murdered by her I am certain. She was always afraid that some one would see him. One day we happened to bo in the sitting room together when she came in. She was angry and told me to get out and never sp ak to him again. Now Talks Freely. "I will speak to him, I told her. A few days later. I think it was January lein was gone. 1 asked for him and she said, -I said you would never talk with him again.' "Then I didn't know what she meant, but now I see it all." ; about the child s body which had heen found. "Early last summer." said he. "Mrs. I dimness told me that a man and a woman had once come to the house w ith 1 a child. When they left it disappeared. She talked about it being mur dered, but I did not think she had killed it then. It came from a neighbor, he said. "At that time I loved and trusted her. Such a thing as murder never

occurred to me." j weie searched first. Not a trace was Lamphere was exceedingly nervous I found of the body. The men went to w hile he was talking. He walked the j the barn lor. and began searching for corridors of t lie jail and chewed tobac-j a soft place. While they were digco incessantly. ; -Ing. Joseph Maxson. a former hired "Thank God I pot. away with my ; h;nd of Mrs. dunness, came up. life." he said to the sheriff. "The ; There was a soft spin in the barn lot threat she made to kill me mig'.'.t have i which Mrs. dunness had Instructed been carried out any night, while I should be well covered with brush he

slept." The sheriff does not. believe that Lamphere was in any way connected wiili the murders. Lamphere wanted to marry the woman, say his friends. Killed in the Kitchen. In LV"i Mrs. (iuuness. who was then Mrs. Belie Soivnson. of Chicago, arriv ed in Lapcrte. Mr. Sorenson met a ; suspicious death. He was in the in;r.iedia'e kitchen of the house w ith his f wife. Neighbors found him lying on , the hhehen fioor. hi? head crushed. Near him lay a bloody meat grinder. Mrs. Cannes-, w;:s called before the , coroner, and she swore that her bus-, band's death, was an accident. The meat. grir.d.T had Ial!e:i. she said, and crushed his head. During the next few ; ears she was much in the iinu --light because of her many suitors. She advertised for a husband in a matrimonial paper. ' Many men. most of whom were ;'A rich or appeared to be, came here. ; Mr. Guntiess was selected by her in 11902 and then married. I pon his i a few months later, she put on! black and for a month she had no! callers. She induced Jennie Olson, ot . Chicago, to come and live with her. Sho adopted the child verbally, no 1 action ever being taken in the courts, j In September, 190h, Miss Olson dis-1 appeared. Mrs. Gunness told friends

that the girl had gone to Los Angeles, j Tuesday are not those of Mrs. GunNo letters w ere ever received by her'ness and her three children, but that or ter sister, ilr. Leo Oluder. liithev war brought here for incinera -

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ycj Prairie aventi", Chicago. To Mrs. Oliimier, Mrs. (!uimess refused to leii anything about Mis Olson. Yisi'ois again came to Mrs. dullness. Helgvloin was one of her most ardent suitors. lie to'd her that he was a rich gambler and could give her a happy homo. The man told her friends, including her employe. Lamphere, that lie would make a good husband, years On de-en, ilelgelein was !. she was old. Arrival cf Helgelein, 41 January I lelgelcin left S. !., coming to Laporn Aber- . He k, but remained for more than a wet little was said about the proposed j marriage. He was a jolly good fellow, i There was no use rushing matters said Mrs. dullness, surprised when she Creditors were came to the city with money and paid them. To one she explained that, an estate which' was coming to her in the West had been settled. Another she told thatj sb.e had secured a loan of $1,500. Hel-j ein was not ready to marry, so ho said. Lamnew intruder. , lie came to snerin .a. r. smuuci auu told him that the widow was not treating him right. Helgelein was bettor j liked than he, he said. He also said, Helgelein v.'.-i wanted hi Aberdeen ; for murder. This proved to b; wrong. On three occasions Mrs. dunness caused the arrest of Lamphere. Once she claimed he cut down a w ire fenco ! in front, of her house. A second time she charged he was disorderly. On April 22 she asked that Lamphere be declared insane. A commission composed of Drs. H. O. Pout well, C. K. Burleson and E. L. Anny examined him. His mind was said to be normal. Pive days later she called on her lawyer, Melvin E. Leiter and said she wanted to make her will. She named as beneficiaries her throe children. In the event of her death it was to go ' the Norwegian Children's Home in ( ..icago. Later in the day she went to the Hank of the State of Indiana and deposited her will, $200 in casn and some papers. A deposit of $700 ! was also made by her. The House Destroyed. She returned to her home and ate supper with the children and Joseph Maxson, her hired man. At 4 o'clock in the morning Maxson awoke and found the house on fire. Hr- escai'd. The fire was on the east side of t lie house. The door of Mrs. Ounness's room was locked. Y'm. Clifford and Maxson tried to break into the house. They failed to find the women. The house was burned early in the morning of April 2, when Iimphere was suspected and arrested. "Did the woman get. out?" he asked when arrested. This led the officers to believe that h knew something of the arson. In jail he admitted that lie liked the widow very well, but. was not jealous of her. He told conflieiing stories of his whereabout on the r.ight of the burning. Search for Bodies. Several men were taken to the farm Tuesday ami the ruins of the house said. They had into the earth wh something tijat t .lug around the a; it. was a gurnie dug about four feet en tl'H spades struck ire like cloth. Th-y nclo. and found that sack. Ir contained the right arm of a matsacks were found and a piro1 of the be.dv. Several more i aeh contained They were as-s--mhh-d and 1 u Igelcin called. "It is my broTher" he cried. The body had been hacked to pieces' with a batciiet or a. saw and the flesh ' was badly tore. More digging was! (ione near the spot where Helgelein! was found. Three feet from the spot j where the man's body was dug up the: skeleton and a little of the flesh, w-hat j is iho'irht to fie Miss Olson, was found. The body of a man. partly dis-j memb 'te i. was dug up near this point, j This is one w hich Lamphere insists j is the sweetheart of Miss Olson. j Th bodies were hrouslu to thi City hospital. Thousands of people J crowded to the morgue to get a viewj of them. Many people who have lost! relatives within the last years have come here in an effort to identify the; unknown bodies. The Gunness home! is a mi'e from the city, through a j rough country, but hundreds have walked there. Ons of the Theories. The t'aeorv is advanced that the j four bodies taken from the debris last!

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Tr iVf. I i ifrt' im iiiiit-f I tiori and that children had money before Mrs. Guano-is and taken flight with the houe was set her , the on fire. It is further said that Helgelein did not meet his death here, but that his remains were t j Chicago and buri-ii yard. ipped h in the Me from d tinners I Despite the incoiierency of Lamj plvro's stati'stieiits, the sheriff thinks that a long step has been made toward clearing up the case. The fact that. Lamphere knew of the comings and goings of persons about the dimness farm at least a year before he went to work for the dead woman is being helii in reserve by Sheriff Smutzer ami Palph Y. Smith, the prosecuting attorney for the second judicial district. They hint that they have other facts with which to confront the prisoner, but may not reveal them until the grand jury has heard the case next week. Sticks to His Story. Except for the implication roct itic ! on Lamphere's exclamation last night the former hired man of Mrs. dimness sticks to his original story of his relations with the woman and his whereabout on the morning of the fire. To support this he has the statement of j Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, a negress, at whose house he spent the night of April 27. She maintains that Lamphere did not leave until about. 4:43 o'clock on the morning of April 2. Joseph Maxson, who had been working for Mrs. dimness since Feb. 10, testified at the inquest over the bodies of the dunness family that he was awakened by smoke about 1 o'clock. That much is in Lamphere's story. Opposed to it is the further testimony of Maxson and that of William Clifford and William Humphrey, the first neighbors to roach the fire. They asserted at the inquest that the blaze was fierest in the vicinity of an outside cellarway and that, an oil can kept on the back porch had disappeared from its accustomed place. Only a man familiar with the place would have known about the oil can, says Maxson. Then, too, Lamphere . nullified the effect, of Mrs. Smith's! testimony by admitting that he had passed the burning hous-' on a road less than a Quarter of a mile away, but ; had refrained from oiug to the as-; sistance of the inmates for fear that suspicion would at once point to him. JACK CADE. He Was Killed With an Arrow by the Sheriff of Kent. One of the mysteries of history Is that surrounding the arch traitor Jack Cade. Nearly all historians have described him as an Irishman. He was reaily born in Sussex, where he was as n youth a servant to one Sir Thomas Dagre. This Sir Thomas Dngr, or Dacre. was a Sussex knight of Treat eminence, who li.nl si-ats at Hurstmonceaux and Ileathiiekl. in thst county. Cade has for several centuries been a common nauie about Mayfield and IleatbQeld. as is proved as well by numerous entries in the parish registers as by lands and localities designated from that family. After his defeat near London Cade took to the Sus.ses woods, and he finally would have escaped if his reckless courage bad not brought him out into the open. It is traditionally related that he was engaged in a game of howls in the gar den of a little aie bouse at Ileathtield when a Kentish squire. Sir Alexander Ideti. sheriff of Kent, taking hiuj unawares, killed him with an arrow. London Saturduy Review. Fir3t Surgeon In St. Louis. Dr. Autoitip Francois Saugraine settled in St. Louis iu lsoo and was the first surgeon to locate west of the Mississippi river. He spent ail of his leisure time in experiments iu chemistry and with electricity. The Indians were frequent visitors at his laboratory and. not understanding the mystery of his experiments, held him In great awe and wanted to worship him as a god. Before tin- village of St. Louis was incorporated Dr. Satigraine acted as postmaster. He tie! the mail up in a blue silk handkerchief and left it on the doorstep. V.i.-n any citizeu wanted to know ' he had a letter he untied the handkerchief, looked the mall ovtr, paid for the postage in a piece cf coonskln. which was legal tender, and walked oa. The Srst luelfer matches ever made in this country were made by Dr. Satigraine. The small wooden sticks were dipped, one at a time. In the combustible substance and then Lit by friction, as at the present time, lie also made the first thermometer used in the west. Kansas City Star. j j I Afigati.: , j T?Tdht. SonVtr Mii: I

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A Again Mrs. Bonilee Kelley Made Defendent in Action. Is SENSATIONAL CHARGES. Mrs. Ponilee Kellev has been sued again. This information is not astonishing but the fact that this time her husband John H.. brings the suit and asks for the custody of two minor children provides a diversion. John has sued before and his wife has sued him. but the domestic differences have been patched up and the ca.es never came to trial. At one time Mrs. Kellfy became angry with her attorney and dismissed him in court and said she would proceed with the case herself. Sensatii. .1 allegations are made by the plaint it f. It is alleged the defendant has been guilty of cruel and inhuman treatment; that, she has locked the defendant out of bis own home; Home Tel. 2062

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