The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-10
Counsel for the Alleged AccOmpIice
suppe Makes the Statement.
EVIDENCE AGAINST THORN
TESTIMONY BY SEVERAL WITNESSES
FOR THE PROSECUTION.
Photographs of Portions of Gulden-
suppe's Body and the OiI-CIOth
Wrappings Exhibited in Court.

NEW YORK, Nov. 9.-The Herald to-mor-
row will say: Emanuel Friend, counsel for
Mrs. Augusta Mack, was at the Harlem
Opera House last night. 1t was noticed
when he came into the lobby that he APP
peared nervous and excited. His extreme
nervousness caused some comment, and he
remarked casually that he had just come
from long interview with his client, Mrs
Mack He sat half the play through, and
on coming out said: Mrs. Mack has con-
fessed. That is all / can say. She has
confessed, and will go on the stand to-mor-
row against Martin Thorn. cannot talk
about the matter any further. / have made
a solemn promise of secrecy. There is no
use of trying to see me later-there is no
use trying to see any one else. Even Mr.
Howe does not know The few others who
do know are pledged to secrecy, as am.
shall go home disconnect my telephone and
refuse to see any one or answer any ques-
tions Mrs. Mack has made full confess
sion-that's all L can say.
The Herald will further say: Mrs
Augusta Mack has made full confession
She had until yesterday not uttered sim
gle word that tended to incriminate her
She had withstood the efforts made by the
police to extort from her an admission that
she had killed William Guldensuppe or that
she had planned his death and lured him
to Woodside, l.. l., where Martin Thorn
actually did the shooting. The woman had
been subjected to the thirty-third degree
by the police-to every known method of
torment. She had been confronted with the
horrid masses of flesh; she had been
coaxed, wheedled and threatened. The
,>rov,,ieo of Iifa bod haar1 hoId ont IN her e
a reward for few words that would sure
ly result in Thorn's execution. She had
remained firm during her Imprisonment at
police headquarters. At all hours of the
day and night she had been besieged, but
she had kept her own counsel. Now she
confesses, by what direct influence is not
known. The story that Mrs. Mack has told
and that she will be called upon TO repeat
to the jury is full of dramatic interest She
has described at great length her, life with
Guldensuppe in the little fiat on Ninth ave-
nue., near Thirty-fourth street She quar-
relied with him frequently after Thorn ap-
peared upon the scene. Guldensuppe was
violent and abusive and to rid themselves
of him she and Thorn determined to kill
him. She induced him to go to Woodside
to inspect a cottage which she had hired
as midwife. She sent him up stairs alone
and when she heard shots she knew that
Thorn had carried out his promise The
greatest difficulty was to obliterate the
traces of murder. The only plan that ap-
peared safe and sure was to cut the re-
mains into fragments, small enough to be
carted away without suspicion. When the
packages had been prepared Mrs. Mack and
Thorn hired surrey in this city and drove
to Woodside. They threw some of their
bundles into the East river, but were then
frightened by the approach of deck hands
on the ferry boat and they drove until
they found an unfrequented spot to leave
what remained. The discovery of the body
was followed within few days by her ar
rest
Regarding the alleged confession of Mrs
Mack the Herald will print the following
interview: District Attorney Rosalsky said:
'I left Mr.. Young's only ten minutes ago
and Mrs. Young knew nothing of the con-
fession. do not know how Mrs. Mack
could have made the confession. 1 have
heard nothing whatever about it from any
source We are able to convict both Thorne
and Mrs. Mack We can do so beyond a
doubt. However, if she has made the con-
fession it may have been to Emanuel
Friend. We are going on in the morning
to prove our case in the usual way"
Wm Il. Howe, senior counsel for Martin
Thorne, said at the Park-avenue Hotel to-
night: This is atrocious. / had the most
perfect defense ever presented in a court
L am utterly at a loss to understand how
any lawyer, with the entire absence of evil
dence against Mrs. Mack would have sane
toned her making a so-called confession
for, assuming that her story be true which
1 deny in so far as it may implicate Thorn
if it does in any way, there was no evil
dence in the possession of the district at
torney to show that Mrs. Mack was any
think more than an accessory after the
fact if Guldensuppe was killed in the way
attributed"
Sheriff Doht says he knows nothing of
any confession made by Mrs Mack He
stated, however, that Mr.. Friend was clos
eted with Mrs. Mack for a long time this
evening.
MARTIN THORNE'S TRIAL.
The trial of Thorn for the murder of VIM.
Guldensuppe began in earnest this morn
ing. Yesterday the jury was secured and
at 10 O'Clock this morning District Attorney
William j. Youngs began his address.
Thorn, clean-shaven and well groomed. sat
with unmoved countenance as the prosecut-
ing attorney outlined his case When he
had concluded the taking of testimony be-
gan.
Twenty witnesses were summoned for ex-
animation to-day, and the district attorney
took them one by one, just as the finding of
the different portions of the body opened
up to the public the fact that terrible
crime had been committed. Four of the
witnesses were the boys who, while SWIM
ming in the East river, had found the upper
portion of the severed trunk. and then fol-
lowed the policemen who We're called to the
scene of the finding and they in turn were
followed by witnesses who testified to the
bringing of that part of the body to the
morgue The discovery OF the lower part
of the trunk, from which the legs were
severed half way between the thighs and
knees. was then taken up, and every person
who handled 1t until 1t was deposited with
the morgue keeper was examined, and each
in turn identified the paper oil cloth and
cheese cloth in which the part was
wrapped. The rest of the afternoon was
taken up by the description of those who
found and Inspected the bundle found float
Ing at the Brooklyn navy yard. and, as in