Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-11-25
THE THORi TRIAL CONTINUED.
Many Incidents That Gratifed the
Morbid Throng.


A Section Of Guldensuppe's Thigh
Bone, With Shreds Of Flesh Hang
ing to It, Throws the Audience In
to Fits of Ecstacy-Mrs. Mack
Z Compelled to Come Into Court to
Be Looked at by Witnesses and
Anxious Women -Thorn's AttOr-
neys Will Try to Convict Mrs.
Mack.
New York, November 24.-The trial
of Martin Thorn for the murder of
William Guldensuppe was continued in
the Queens county court to-day. The
galleries on each side of the court
room were occupied by women, for
whom the trial possesses an eXtraor-
binary attraction.
A fortnight ago Mrs. Mack created
sensation by going on the witness
stand and accusing Thorn of having
killed her former lover, Guldensuppe.
Since that time the defense has chang
ed its base, and as Mr.. Howe said in
court to-day, the defendants lawyers
will now endeavor to prove through
Thorn as the principal witness, that
Mrs. Mack herself committed the
crime.
The early part of to-day's proceed
ings was entirely taken up with evil
dence to prove the corpus deficit.
Coroner Tuthill, during his examina-
ton, stated that the cause of death
was a stab wound between the fifth
and six ribs which penetrated the
heart. Later in the day the prose-
cutting attorneys through a fellow bar
Der of Thorn connected him with the
possession of a stiletto, the blade OF
which was over six inches in length.
The district attorney tried very hard
to get this witness to testify that Thorn
had spoken Of his relations with Mrs.
Mack and Guldensuppe, but Lawyer
Howe was equal to the occasion, and
the court invariably sustained his OBJ
jections.
Some of the witnesses examined to-
day reside in WOodside, and they told
of the visits of gaily dressed woman
who appeared in the vicinity of the
cottage with man in light colored
clothes on the day of the alleged MUIR
er.June 25. They had also seen d
man wearing dark blue clothes about
the house on the day in question, and
he was seen by one witness to go in
and out of the house frequently. Three
of them identified Thorn as the man
in dark clothes and two of them iden-
titled photographs of Guldensuppe as
being representations of the man who
had worn the light suit. None of
them, however, had seen any traces
of the latter after he had entered the
cottage on that Friday morning.
Lawyer Howe requested the court to
have Mrs Mack produced in order that
she might be identified by the witness.
This request brought about legal ar
gument and finally Mr.. Howe was COM
PEELED to swear out a writ compelling
the sheriff to produce her.
Mrs. Mack was brought into court
after the midday recess, looking much
paler than when she appeared two
weeks ago in the same court.
The morbid curiosity of the majority
of the spectators was gratified in the
afternoon session by the production
in the court room of piece of the bone
of one of Guldensuppe's thighs, to
which was attached some shreds OF
flesh. This CHASTITY exhibit was sealed
in a glass jar DR.. OHanlon explain
ed that he cut this portion eff to show
infinitely it fitted into the correspond
ing part of the trunk.
Police Supt. Stephen O'Brien, form
erly in charge of the New York detec-
tive bureau, was On the stand for con-
siderable portion of the afternoon and
told great deal of what Martin Thorn
had said to him when the prisoner was
being put through what is known
among criminals at "the thiriy-third
degree"
Thorn at that time had denied all
knowledge of the killing Of Gulden-
suppe. Captain O'Brien also said that
when he was questioning Mrs. Mack,
when she was arrested four days after
the murder was alleged 10 have been
committed, she said: 'Guldensuppe
did not treat me right. l love Thorn
and would die for him."
1t was at this time that Mr.. Howe
said: Eve say right now we will show
that Mrs. Mack committed the murder
and what she said to the captain will
bear US out"
Adjournment of court was taken I'M
til Friday.