The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-25

Fix the Crime on Her-Damagisg Ad
missions Said TO Have Been Made b.
Mrs. Mack In Conaection With He
Relations With the Two Men In tn,
Case-Lueteert Trial Next week-Rev
Morrison at Jdbertv-Crime News
New York, Nov. 24.-The trial Of Mar
tin Thorn for the murder Of William
Guldensuppe was continued in the
Queens county court today. The gal
leries 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 ac-
cusing Thorn of having killed her form
er lover, Guldensuppe. Since that time
the defense has changed it's base, and
as Mr.. Howe said in court today, the de-
! fendant's lawyers will now endeayor to
prove, through Thorn as the principal
witness, that Mrs. Mack herself commit
ted the crime.
The early part of today's proceedings
was entirely taken up with evidence 10
prove the corpus deficit. Coroner Tut
hill, during his examination, stated that
the cause Of death was stab wound be-
tween the fifth and sixth ribs, which
penetrated the heart. Later in the day
the prosecuting attorneys through a fell
iow- barber of Thorn's, connected him
with the possession Of a stiietto, the
blade Of which was over six inches in
length.
Some OF the witnesses examined today
reside In Woodside and they told OF the
visits Of gaily dressed woman VINO ap-
peared in the vicinity of the cottage
with a man in light colored clothes on the
day OF the alleged murder, June 25. They
had also seen q man wearing dark blue
clothes about the house and on the day
in question he was seen by one Of the
witnesses to go in and out Of the house
frequently. The most of them identified
Thorn as the man in dark clothes, and
two of them identified photographs of
Guldensppe as being representations Of
the man who had worn the light suit.
None Of them, however, had seen any
traces Of the latter after he had enter
ed the cottage on that Friday morning.
Lawyer Howe requested the court to
have Mrs. Mack produced in order that
she might be identified by the witnesses.
This request brought about legal ar
PEELED to swear out a writ compelling the
sheriff TO produce her.
Mrs. Mack was brought into court af-
ter the midday recess, looking much pal
re than when she appeared two weeks
ago in the same court. The morbid curl
osity of the majority Of the spectators
was gratif1ed in the afternoon session
by the production in court Of piece Of
the bone OF one Of Gudensuppe's thighs,
to which was attached some shreds Of
flesh. This ghastly exhibit was sealed in
a glass Jar. DIR. O'Halon explained that I
he cut this portion off to show how min
utely II fitted into the corresponding
piece of the bone which protruded from
the stump Of the lower part Of the |
trunk. \
Police Captain O'Brien, formerly in |
charge Of the New York detective bu- |,
reau, was on the stand for a considera-
bic portion of the afternoon and told a
great deal of what Martin Thorn had |
said to him when the prisoner was be- |
ing put through what is known among |
criminals as tine thirty-third degree" =
Thorn at that time had denied all |
Of the killing Of Guldensuppe.
Captain OBrien also said that when he |
was questing Mrs. Mack when she was
arrested four days after the murder wa.
alleged TO have been committed, she
said:
''Guldensuppe did not treat me right.
love Thorn and would die for him.
II was that time that Mr.. Howe said:
Eve say right now we will show that
Mrs. Mack committed the murder, and
what she said to the captain will bear u.
,ut."
The adjournment OF court was until
Friday.
NABBED AT THE GANG PLANK.
San Francisco, Nov. 24-The police
lave been notified that w. F. Kassan.
he escaped prisoner had been caught in
B. c. Kassan is the Iowa man
Who, while In prison here charged with
escaped. While in Jail
lere KasSan was notified that he had
'een left s25o,0o by an uncle, James
<a.san Of Austin, Iowa. He was then
ooked upon as sort OF prize prisoner
md given many privileges. 1t Yves by
ahng advantage OF this lexity that he
vas enabled 70 escape. Kassan, when
rrested in Victoria, had 5000 in mis-
'ocket. Presumably ne had managed TO
get hold of part of his inheritance and
vas seeking TO get away in a steamer
o the Orient.
REV. MORRISON IS FREE.
Topeka, Kan. Nov. 24-The Rev. G.
;. Morrison, who has been held here for
everal days on the charge of numbering
lis wife in Pan Handle, Texas. was re-
eased from Jail last evening on advice
Z Attorney General Boyle. a. the sheriff
rom Texas had not arrived to claim his
riscner.
LUETGERT NEXT MONDAY.
Chicago, Nov. 24--Judge Gary defin- .
tely announced today that he would
axe the Luetgert wife murder case FOR