The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-11-24
THORNE ON TRIAL AGAIN.
A Jury Was Secured Yesterday at
Noon.


New York, November 23.-The second |
trial of Martin Thorn fer The murder of
VIM. Guldensuppe, was fairly started to-
day in the Queens county court before
Justice Maddox. When an adjournment
was taken yesterday, seven jurors had
been sworn. The other five jurors were
selected before l O'Clock today.
After a recess District Attorney Youngs
opened the case for the prosecution. In
a comprehensive manner he placed the
entire .se of the people against Thorn
before the court and jury and promised
to cover every thing that was charged in
the Indictment. He spoke for 80 min
utes and as soon as he had finished the
taking of evidence was begun.
The remainder of the session was taken
up in the examination of those who
found the three bundles, each one con-
tanning a portion of the discovered body,
and several police officers were examined
as to the manner in which the different
parts were brought to the New York
morgue. Some of the bath rubbers who
knew Guldensuppe in life and worked
alongside of him, testified to the identity
of the remains and they were positive,
judging from the peculiar marks on the
different parts, that they belonged to the
body Of the missing bath attendant.
Tomorrow the coroner and his deputy
will be called to the stand and it is quite
probable that Clark, Gotha and others
who say that Thorn made confessions
TO them, may also be examined. Mrs
Mack may also be called. But when the
district attorney was asked this evening
whether there was any significance in
the fact that he had not spoken of Mrs.
Mack as witness in the opening address
and if she would or would not be wit
ness during the second trial, MIR. Youngs
replied: 81 cannot answer those cues
lions at this stage.
The lawyers for the defense, however,
are quite positive that the woman will
be witness and that they are prepared
to make it very warm for her during her
cross examination. That they will put
Thorn on the witness stand to refute
Mrs. Nack's testimony and swear that
it was she who committed the murder,
is now beyond all doubt.
In addition to ghOrn's testimony it
is said on good authority that the
defense will produce witnesses who will
accuse Mrs. Mack of having committed
not be disclosed by Thorn's counsel I'M
til it is made public in evidence.
Both sides ara satisfied with the jury
and the defense is perfectly well pleased
with the majority of the jurors. The
rulings Of Judge Maddox have been very
impartial. 1t is thought that by Mon
day or Tuesday at the furthest, all the
evidence will be submitted.
The forenoon was spent in obtaining a
jury. The panel was completed at IL. As
and the court then took a recess for
luncheon.
At the opening of the afternoon session
District Attorney Youngs began his adj
dress to the jury. After referring to the
previous trial which had to be abandoned
on account of Juror Larsen's illness, the
District Attorney told in detail the
history of the crime which he said had
teen carefully conceived and skillfully
carried out.
''You may look in vain through the
pages of criminal jurisprudence, he
said, ''to find case so fraught with
skiliful cunning and deliberate devilish-
ment and murderous ingenuity of pur-
pose.
Mr.. Youngs occupied just half an hour
in presenting the case and concluded at
ten minutes past TWO O'Clock.
John Mcclure, one of the boys who
found the first bundle in the East River
was called as the first witness.
The witness described the finding of the
upper portion of the headless trunk and
identified the oilcloth and other wrapping
found at the foot of East Eleventh street
on June IS last. Police Officers Moore
and Winters testified to the bringing of
the upper portion of the trunk to the New
York mOrgue.
Mr.. Howe objected to the introduction
OF photograph of the portion Of the
human body in the evidence on the
ground that the original parts were in the
possession of the prosecution.
Judge Maddox sustained the objection.
He said the district attorney should prove
the identity of the photograph.
James A. Walsh, the official photogra-
pher Of the New York Police department
identified the photograph as one he had
taken at the New York morgue. The
photograph was then admitted in the
evidence for identified ton.
The finding of the bundle containing
the lower'part of the trunk in Ogden
woods as described by Julius Meyer, his
thirteen year old son, Edgar and two police
officers
Detective Carr told of the taking of the
portion found in Ogden woods to the
police station at High bridge and its sub
sequent transfer to the morgue. He also
described peculiar marks which were on
the lower part of the trunk
Detective Aloncle stated that when he
examined the lower portion of the body
in Ogden Woods, it was soaking wet.
None of the other witnesses had said
anything about that part of the body be-
ing wet.
Police Officers Downing and Collins
told Of the finding of the legs in a bundle
IN the East river at the Brooklyn navy
yard and Downing said he brought them
to the New York morgue. Isaac Newton,
the morgue keeper testified to his receiv-
ing the different parts of the body and on
GROSS examination by Mr.. Howe he said
that DR.. O'Hanton, a deputy coroner had
sawed off a part of the bone of one of the
legs, which one he could not remember
This left smooth surface as it was done
with fine saw
The protruding bone of the other leg
had a Jagged surface. just what Mr..
Howe hoped to get out of this admission
was not apparent but the veteran crini-
nal lawyer seemed very much pleased
when Newton told it.
frank Gardiner, bath attendant, said
ne had worked alongside of Guldensuppe
for some time. He had frequently seen
him nude and described the marks on
Guldensuppe's body The portions of the
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