The herald., 1897-11-25
THORN'S TRIAL
Draws a Great Crowd OF
Women
THE DEFENDANTS ONLY HOPE
LIES IN THE PROoF oT THE GUILT
OF MRS. MACK
THE DEFENDANTS ONLY HOPE
The Testimony introduced Varies but
Little From That offered in the
Former Trial
Associated Press special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
NEW YORK, Nov. 24.-The trial of
Martin Thorn for the murder Of William
Guldensuppe was continued in the
Queens county court today. The galleries
on each side of the court room were
mostly occupied by women, for whom
the trial possesses an extraordinary at
traction.
A fortnight ago Mrs. Mack created a
sensation by going on the stand and
accusing Thorn of having killed her
former lover, Guldensuppe. Since that
time the defense has changed it's base,
and, as Mr.. Howe said in court today
the defendants lawyers will now en-
deavor to prove through Thorn, as the
principal witness, that Mrs. Mack her
self committed the crime. The early
part of today's proceedings was entirely
taken up with evidence to prove the
corpus delicti. Coroner Tuthill. during
his examination, stated that the cause
of death was a stab between the fifth
and sixth ribs, which penetrated the
heart. Later in the day the prosecuting
attorneys, through fellow barber of
Thorn, connected him with the possess
sion of O. stietto, the blade of which was
over six inches in length.
Some of the witnesses examined to-
day reside in Woodside, and they told
of the visits of a galy dressed woman,
who appeared in the vicinity of the cot
tage with a man in light-colored clothes
on the day Of the alleged murder June
25th. They had also seen a man wear
ing dark blue clothes about the house,
and on the day in question he was seen
by one witness to go in and out of the
house frequently. Three of them iden-
titled Thorn as the man in dark-blue
clothes, and two of them identified
of Guldensuppe as being
of the man who had
worn the light suit. None of them.
however, had seen any traces of the
latter after he had entered the cottage
on that Friday morning. Lawyer Howe
the court to have Mrs. Mack
produced in court, in order that she
might be identified by the witnesses.
This request brought about a legal
and finally Mr.. Howe was
to swear out q writ com
pelling the sheriff to produce her. Mrs.
Mack was brought into court after the
recess, looking much paler than
when she appeared two weeks ago in the
same court. The morbid curiosity of the
of the spectators was gratifed
in the afternoon session by the produc-
ton in court of a piece of bone Of one
Of Guldensuppe's thighs, to which was
some shreds of flesh. This
ghastly exhibit was sealed in o glass
jar. DR.. O'Hanlon explained that he
cut this portion off to show how minute
Iy it fitted into the corresponding piece
Of bone which protruded from the
stump of the lower part of the trunk.
Police Captain OBrien, formerly in
charge of the New York detective bu-
'eau. was on the stand for considera-
ole portion of the afternoon, and told
great deal of what Martin Thorn had
said to him when the prisoner was be-
ng put through what Is known among
criminals as 1.-The third degree" Thorn
1t that time had resented all knowledge
If the killing of Guldensuppe. Captain
0'Brien also said that when he was
questioning Mrs. Mack when she was
arrested, four days otter the murder
vas alleged to have been committed, she
said: "Guldensuppe did not treat me
light. love Thorn and would die for
nim.''
1t was at that time that Mr.. Howe
said: eve will say right now that we
will show that Mrs. Mack committed the
murder and what she said to the cap
.ain will bear us OUT
This morning, H. S. Peck, A. Stueben
and Alfred Baeder, employss in the
Murray Hill Baths, corroborated Ahe
testimony given last evening by other
employees ais to the identity of the parts
If Guldensuppe's body.
Coroner Theodore Tuthill of New
FORK County, described the appearance
If the portions of the body which he ex-
lmined at the morgue and said the sew
sral fragments fitted each other perfect
y. He said that he had found two stab
one under the right collar bone
Ind the other between the fifth and sixth
ribs. The tissues around the wound at
he collarbone were filled with blood,
showing that the stab wound had been
inflicted during life. The wound be-
.ween the ribs penetrated the heart.
On ross-examination DIR. Tuthill said
% Mr.. Howe:
"The immediate cause of death was a
stab wound in the heart"
The adjournment of court was until
Friday.