The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-11-10
HRS. mack CONFESSES.
Admits Connection With the GGldGn-
suppe Murder.
SAYS THAT THORNE ACTUALLY
DID THE SHOOTING.

New York Herald Claims To Have In
formation To That Effect-Thorne's
Lawyers Deny Any knowledge of the
Story.
New York, November 9-The Herald
tomorrow will publish the following:
Mrs. Augusta Mack has made full
confession. She had until yesterday not
uttered single word that tended to In
criminate her. She had withstood the
efforts made by the police to extort from
her an admission that she had killed VIM.
Guldensuppe or that she had planned his
death and lured him to Woodside, L. l.,
whore Martin Thorn actually did the
shooting.
The woman had been subjected by the
police. to every known method of torment.
She had been confronted with the horrid
masses of flesh; she had been coaxed and
threatened. The promise of life had been
held out to her as a reward for a few
words that would surely 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 beseiged, but she had Kept her own
counsel.
Now she confesses by what direct In
fiuence 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 fat on Ninth avenue, near
Thirty fourth street. She quarrelled with
him frequently after Thorn appeared ups
on 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 Wood
side to inspect a cottage which she had
hired, as she told him, to conduct her
business as q midwife. She sent him up
stairs alone and when she heard shots she
knew that Thorn had carried out his
promise.
The greatest difficulty Yves to obliterate
traces of murder. The only plan that ap-
peared safe and sure was to cut up the re.
mains into fragments small enough to be
carted away without suspicion. When
the packages had been prepared, Mrs,
Mack and Thorn hired a surrey in This
city and drove to Woodside. They threw
some of their bundles in the East river,
but were frightened by the approach of
deckhands on the terryboat, and thry
drove on until they found an unira-
| quented spot to leave what remained. The
discovery of the body was followed with
| in few days by her arrest.
Regarding the alleged confession the
Herald will print the following intevieWs
District Attorney Rosalsky said: I lef5
Mr.. Young's only ten minutes ago and
Mr.. Young knew nothing of the con
T ,{a I'm
could have made the alleged confession. [
have heard nothing about it. We ara abs
to convict both Thorn and Mrs. Mack.
We can do so beyond doubt. However,
if she has made the confession, it may
have been TO Mr. Friend. We are going
on in the morning TO prove our case in
the usual way.
VIM. f. Howe, senior counsel for Mar
| tin Thorn, said: "This is atrocious. I
had the most perfect defense ever pre-
sented in court | am utterly at G loss
to understand how any sawyer with the
entire absence of evidences against her
could have sanctioned her making So
called confession; for assuming that her
story be true, which | deny in. so far as it
may impllcate Thorn. il ia-does in any
way, there was no evidence in the
possession of the district attorney to show
that Mrs. Mack was anything more than
an accessory after the fact if Guldensuppe
was killed in the way attributed. -
Those at the jail said that they had no
knowledge at all about any confession.
| The sheriff however, was not there,
having gone to Glendale. Night Jailer
Leonard said that he had been talking
| with the matron just before she went to
| bed, and he was sure she knew nothing
of it. He declined to send any word to
Mrs. Mack.
| Sheriff Doht of Queens county, says he
knows nothing of any confession made by
=
| Friend was closeted with Mrs. Mack for d
long time this evening.