The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-28
He Says the WOman's Testimony Was
Mass of FaIsehOOd, and that
She Committed the Crime.
SHE FIRED THE FATAL SHOT
AND AFTERWARDS DISMEMBERED
THE BODY WITH KNIFE AND SAW.
Thorn Admits His Completely, but As
cause He Was MadIy in Love.

NEW YORK, Nov. 27.-Martin Thorn,
who. with Mrs. Augusta Mack, is charged
with numbering William Guldensuppe, has
made the following statement for publica-
ton:
When 1 go the stand Monday mcrn-
ing l will tell the true and complete story
of the crime for which 4 am now being
tried for my life My lawyer has advised
me to conceal nothing, and with the help
of Gcd 1 will not.
Martin Thorn is just man, with vices
and virtues like any other, and with the
love of life just as strong within him as
in any of those who say he sinned because
he loved an unworthy woman-loved and
trusted and shielded her until he was in the
very shadow of the electric chair; loved
her until she swore away his existence to
save her own, to save herself from the con-
sequences of her own act-the killing Of
the man whom she said she feared because
of his knowledge of other crimes.
Augusta Mack planned and accom-
plshed the murder of William Guldensuppe
When l got to the Woodside cottage that
Saturday morning she met me at the door,
and said: have got Guldensuppe up
stairs. He is dead She had shot him in
the face and stabbed him in the breast, she
time, but in the doorway, and she was out
of sight of the people on the street at the
time. half way up stairs. l knew nothing
of her purpose that day. She had asked me
TO come to WOOdside. l went there, and
when / arrived she told me that she had
killed Guldensuppe, and that all her trouble
was over.
For a long time / hardly knew what to
do Mrs. Na6k asked me TO help her cut
up the body l hesitated but could not
make up my mind. You have got to help
me get rid of it, she said, or both of us
will get into trouble. All you have got to
do is to help AS last / helped her to carry
the body to the bathtub. 1t was very
heavy Guldensuppe was dead. He was
not breathing when we put him in the bath
tub. Mrs. Mack did the cutting while
held the body. First she cut the head off,
then she took the saw and sawed the trunk
in two and then cut off tie legs. She was
afraid the saw would go through the
wrong place in the body, but she finally
got the right place. Sine mentioned at the
time that il was a good thing she knew
something about surgery, or else it would
be impossible to get rid of the body prop
erly. Before she cut the body up the
clothes We're taken off. Afterwards the
body was rolled up in the oilcloth that
Mrs. Mack bought at Mrs. Rigers. Then
We talked over the plans to get rid of the
body. She arranged for the surrey drive
and the throwing away of the pieces. She
gave me the money to hire the surrey. She
also gave me the money to hire the Wood
side cottage, where she said she was to
start place to treat women who were in
trouble and who wanted it kept quiet.
h. f,,ta .;x,a
and disposed of pieces of the body, as the
papers have stated, she took Guldensuppes
clothes and burned them in a stove.
1t was nothing but my love for Mrs.
Mack that got me into all this trouble l
helped her get rid of the dead body to
shield her and save her from being arrest
ed Everybody has lied about me in this
case. principally because l have not talked
or explained They say 1 told Gotha that
I killed GulIensuppe. It's lie. 1 told him
that Mrs. Mack killed him. They say of