The age-herald., 1897-11-09

cheese cloth. Those were removed and then there was a yell of terror and both lads stood hon erstrcken and speechlsss. There on the pier lay the mutilated trunk of a man with the arms folded
 across the breast. It was the upper DOT tion of the bcdy from the hips to the throalB The arms, strangely enough, had been allowed to remain, but the cutting of the neck and the trunk had
 been carefully done. From the breast a. slice of skin had been removed, and over the spot the unfortunate mans arms had besn place as if to conceal .t- The boys were quickly surrounded by mass of people who were anxious to view the gruesome find and then the po- l lice came.
 At First Considered Joko At first it was considered that some
 medical student had played a grim joke
 at the expense of the sensibiIties of the l gensral public but coroner's physician, after cul sory examination, settled the probabilities and possibilities of the affair by declaring that undoubtedly n murder l had been committed. Thinking people, i as well as the detectives, asked them selves, "What had become of the other portions of the body?" But nobody had any idea as to where an answer would | come from. The tide might make gen. | eraI delivery or possibly dIrags would find the missing portions on the bottoms of | the river
 Lower Portion of Body Found Before anything could be dons in the l dragging line, another discovery was | made which further deepenad the mys- | tery, but afterwards aided materially in unraveling it. On Sunday morning, June 27, man and two boys while pick ing berries in ogden woods, near Wash l ingiton bridge, in the far northern part l of the city, many miles from East | Eleventh street, found bundle which 1 WAS similar to that picked up the day be- l fore in ths East river. They notified the | police, to whom they said that the newly found package might contain another | part of the body, and In minute the correctness of their suspicious was | proven. In oil cloth, brown paper and 1 cheese cloth was wrapp i'd the lower half I of mans trunk. It was the half miss | ing from the East river find.
 Whose Body Was It
 Who was the murdered man? Who we're his nlurderers? For one person alone was not concerned in it. Thos+ were questions to be answered by the l detective force, but from the chief to the | humblest msmber it was simply case | of blank amazement and absolute in | competence even to make beg ming | of unraveling the terrible mystery. The | head and lsgs were stin missing. The l head is still missing, but the body has been identified and the mystery un- | travelled. A reporter got the idea that | the man in life, judging from his hands, | was a masseur, or something of that 1 kind, and he started to work ont an | Identification on this basis. He visited | the Murray Hill Turkish baths on West 1 Forty-second street. and there learned l that one of the attendants, William l Guld =nsuppe, had not been seen for | couple of days. The missing man had l been emltoyed as a rubber in the baths | and had prominent tattooed mark on
 | his breast. Close inquiries elici.ed the
 l information that Guldensuppe had dis l app sal,ed on Thursday night or early on | Friday morning, the day upon which the | murder was supposed to have been cnnl- | mitted. The reporter discovered that | there was a woman named Mrs. Augusta l Mack who had abandoned her husband | for Guldtnsuppe. The Final Clue
 l Mrs. Mack lived on the second floor of | No. 439 Ninth avenue, and thither the l reporter vert. She knew Guldensuppe, | but she had not seen him for few days. | The woman was perfectly cool and an- swered all questions plausbly, but as l was discovered almost immediately, lied | unhesitatingly. These lies have helped 1 to weave a. network of damEing evil | dence around her.
 It was learned that Guldensuppe had l a rival for the affection of Mrs. Mack in l one Martin Thorn, a barber. Both men | had quarrsled about the woman and had 1 threatened each others lives.
 He had disappeared as completely as 1 if the earth had opened and swallowed | him. call for his arrest was sent out l by the police authorities and for days | the public waited anxiously for his cap ture.
 Meanwhile the missing lsgs were found close to the navy yard in Brook lyn. They were tied up in oilcloth, pa per and cheese-cloth, similar to the wrappings of the two bundles previous | ly found The limbs fitted exactly to the | lower part of the trunk found in the woods, and as it fitted to the upper DOT l tion of the body first found, nothing was left to perfect the identification but the head.
 The Arrest of Thorn At last came the arrest of Thorn. 1 The man had never left the city. He had merely shaved off his moustache. Had hesheld his tongue he could proba ply 1 have continued to live in this city un- l mo1ested His terrible secret was too l much for him, and so one day he un- l bcsomed 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 he knew. Mrs. 1 Gctha once in possession of the dread | story, could not and would not rest until the police had also heard It. Her brother was police officer, and to him she told | the story of Thorn's admission The de-