Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-11-08

porter GOT the idea tKtat the man In HE,
Judging from his hands, was massorr,
or something of that kind, and he start
ed to work out an Identification on this
basis. He visited the Murray Hill Turk
ish baths on West Forty-second street,
to refresh himself after hard day
search, and there he learned that one
'of the attendants William Guldensuppe,
had not been seen for couple OF days
The missing man had been employed as
rubber in the baths and had promi-
nent tattooed mark on his breast. Close
inquiries elected the information that
Guldensuppe had disappeared on
Thursday night, or early Friday morn
ing, the very day upon which the MUIR
der was supposed to have been com
mitted Where did he live? VINO
We're his friends? Had he efe? OR
was there a woman mixed up IN MS
affairs?
LOVE AND JEALOUSY
might account for the committal OF SO
terrible a, deed. The reporter dlscoV-
cred that there was woman named
Mrs. Augusta Mack who had abandoned
her husband for Guldensuppe. Here
was a clue. Might not the husband
have had hand in the bloody work?
-
of No. 439 Ninth avenue, and thither
the reporter went Yes, she knew Gull
densuppe, but she had not seen him Tor
a few days She was perfectly cool,
but there was something about her
which arouse the suspicious OF her IN
terrcgator. He went back to the baths
and had the attendants there who knew
Gudensuppe well, so with him to the
morgue. These men had no difficulty
in identifying the trunk and arms as
those Of Guldensuppe. They had kneWn
him for years and had daily seen him
stripped to his waist at his work. Where
the skin was cut from the breast Gul-
densuppe had carried the tattoo marks
which would have made identification
easy, but it was evident they had been
removed to prevent their serving Such
a purpose. The reporter then hurried
back to Mrs. Nack's house, where he
found her preparing to move to another
residence The woman was perfectly
cool, and answered all questions plaus-
IDLY, but, as was discovered almost I'M
mediately,
LIED UNHESITATINGLY.
Those lies have helped to weave
network of damaging evidence around
her. Other reporters kept watch on the
house SO that the. midwife might be
tracked wherever she went and then
the story was given to the police, who
were still fioundering in the dark.
Mrs Mack was arrested and her hus-
band from whom she was separated,
!, was captured while driving a bread wa
gon. He however, established his in
nocence sufficiently. we'll to procure his
discharge. By this time it was learned
that Guldensuppe had rival for the
affection of Mrs. Mack, in one Martin
Thorn, a barber Both men had quar-
relied about the woman and had threat
ened each others lives.
Where was Thorn? He had disap-
peared as completely as if the earth had
opened and swallowed him. A call for
I. his arrest was sent out by the police
authorities, and for days the public
waited anxiously for his capture. 1t
was believed that he had shipped for
Germany apd that hsGIlde DE taken
into custody on hi k'al there.
Meanwhile
ThE MISS ZEGs
dl\2d close me navy yard in
- We're tied up in oil
Ena, .cheese-cloth similar
Nfatbings of the two bundles
Geviously found. The bath attend
ANTS made the Identification more
positive, as they easily recognized the
limbs as those of Guldensuppe on ac-
count of his having overlapping toes.
The limbs fitted exactly to the lower
part of the trunk found in the woods,
and as it fitted to the upper portion of
the body first found nothing was left
to perfect the Identification but the
head
At last came the arrest of Thorn.
The man had never left the city. He
had merely shaved off his mustache,
and with this simple disguise he rub
bed clothes with the officers who were
looking for him. Had he held his
tongue he probably could have lived
in this city unmoested. Thorn, how
anlr, liked bis beer and was fond OF
rany His terrible secret was too
a. ktor-him, and so one day he I'M
bHrdened his mind to an old friend
and fellow barber. John Gotha.
Gotha he swore to secrecy, but the
secret was too much for the latter also.
He would at least tell his wife all ne
knew. Mrs. Gotha being in posses
sion of the dread story, could not and
would not rest until the police had
also hGaru 1t. I1eI DIOIuGi W do d pO-
lice officer, and to him she told the
story of Thorn's admission. The de-
tectives at once waited on Gotha and
he
CONFIRMED THE TALE
told by his wife. The arrest of Thorn
followed. Gotha made an appointment
to meet him at One Hundred and
Twenty-ifth street and Eighth avenue,
although Thorn demurred at first and
expressed himself as anxious TO meet
Gotha in more lonely and unfre-
cuented place Gotha and his family
N.elieve now that Thorn had then re-
GREETED having committed his secret
to the keeping Of his friend and re-
solved to kill him. Gotha induced
Thorn to meet him at night on the
corner mentioned, and as soon as
s, Gotha walked toward him Thorn was
surrounded by detectives and thus his
arrest was effected. Thorns story TO