The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-28
AS TOLD BY THORN
STORY OF THE MURDER OF WILL
lam GULDENSUPPB.

LAM GUbDENSUPPb
hrs. Nack's Confession Met by Her Former
Lovers Counter-Conf nfession-Says She
the Hiding of the Body. Only She Has
Substituted His Name For Her Own
Loved Her Well Enough Co Die For
Ber. But For this Treache ry-Further
Conduct OF the Trial
New York, Nov. 27.-The following
statement, signed by Martin Thorn. is
published in an evening paper:
When I go TO the stand Monday
morning 1 will tell the true and COM
plete story of the crime for which l am
now being tried for my life. My law
yer mas advised me to conceal nothing,
ana with the help of God I will not.
Martin Thorn is just a man, with
vices and virtues like any other. and
with the love of life Just as strong az
any OF those who say he sinned because
ne loved an unworthy wonlan-loyed e,er
very shadow Of the electric chair; loved
ner until she smore away his very ex-
istence to save her own, to save herself
from the consequences Of her own act
the killing the man whom she said she
reared because OF his knowledge Of other
crimes.
augusta Mack planned and accom-
phshed the murder of William Gulden-
suppe.
when 1 got to the Woodside cottage
tnat Saturday morning she met me at
the door and said: I have got Gulden-
suppe up stairs; he is dead
Sne mad shot him in the face and
stabbed him in the breast, she said
was not even in the house at the time
out IN tled oorway, and she was ont
Of sight Of the people on the street at
the time, half way upstairs. cnew
hotnang OF her purpose that day. She
hau asked me to come TO Woodside. 1
went there and when I arrived sne told
me she had killed Guldensuppe and that
al her trouble was over.
For a long time hardly knew what
70 DO. Mrs. Mack asked me to help ner
cut the body up. / hesitated, but could
not make up my mind.
ou nave got to help me get rid OF
II, she said, or both of US will get fnto
trouble. All you have got 10 do is To
help
AT last L helped her to carry the body
to the bath tub. 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 T
held the body. First she cut the head
OK tnen she took the saw and sawed the
trunk In two and then the legs. She
was afraid the saw would go through
qne wrong place in the body. but she
finally got the night place. She mem
toned at the time that it was a. good
tnlng she knew something about sl,r-
gerry, or else it would be impossible to
get rid Of the body properly. Before she
cut the body up the clothes were taken
on. Afterwards the body I4s rolled up
in the oilclota bought at Mrs. Riger's.
Then we talked over the plans to get rid
OF the body. She arranged for the sur
rey drive and the throwing away of the
pieces. She gave hthe money to hire the
surrey.
She gave me the money to hire the
Woodslde cottage, where, she said. she
was 10 start place to treat women who
were in trouble and who wanted to keep
it quiet
After we threw the head into the riv-
er and disposed of the pieces of the
body, as the papers have stated. she took
Guldensuppe's clothes and burned them
in a stove.
1T was nothing but my love for Mrs.
Mack that got me into all this trouble.
/ helped her to get rid Of the dead body
to shield her and to save her from be-
ing arrested.
Everybody has lied about me in this
ease, principally because have not talk
ed or explained.
Il said L told Gotha that I killed Gull
hensuppe. 1t is a lie / told him that
Mrs. Mack killed him. They say l of
fered TO confess 10 Captain O'Brien so
could get free. That is another lie.
told Captain O'Brien something of a
private nature that did not concern. the
case Intimately. l give him permission
to speak now. He will bear me out.
They say. too, that 1 threatened to
murder William Guldensuppe. said
would kill him before he killed me. Hs
almost killed me, and threatened my life
every time ne mentioned my name e,
Mrs. Mack. Augusta told me so and
told me to look out and have a 71isr,l n
shoot him, but not 10 90 il in her house
She would get into trouble, she said. l
thought she told me that because she
loved me. / now know that she feared