The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-09

expense Of the sensibilities of the general
public, but eoroner's physician. after
cursory eXamina ton. settled the discussion
as 10 the probabilities and possibilities of
the affair by declaring hat undoubtedly
a murder had been committed Then
there was genuine sensation. Death, ac-
cordinS to the coroner's physician. had
resulted from stab wound inflicted with
long keen knife. which had penetrated
the heart. The knife had also been driven
through the left shoulder into the lung.
thinking people, as we'll as the detectives
asked themselves: What had become Of
the other portions of the body2" But no.
body had any idea as to where an an
swer would come from. The tide might
make general delivery, or, possibly,
drags would find the missing por-
lions on the bottom of the riv-
er- before anything could be
done in the dragging line, another discov-
cry was made which further deepened the
mystery but afterwards aided materially
in unravelling it. on Sunday morning
June q, man and two boys, while pick
ing berries in Ogden woods near Wash
lngton bridge, in the far northern part Of
the city many miles from East Eleventh
street, found a bundle which was similar
to that picked up the day before in the
East river. The three had read the ac-
counts of the peculiar bundle picked up
by the swimmers and instantly notified the
ponce, 70 whom they said that the newly
found package might contain another part
OF the body, and in minute the correct
ness OF their suspicious was proven. In
oil cloth, brown paper and cheese cloth
was wrapped the lower half of a mans
trunk. 1t was the half missing from the
East river find.
10 whom did this poor carved body be-
long? What was its owner in life? Who
was the murdered man? Who were his
murderers? For one person alone was not
concerned in it, Those were questions to
be answered by the detective force but
from the chief to the humblest member
1t was simply case of blank amazement
and absolute Incompetence to even make
a beginning of unravelling the terrible
mystery. The head and legs were
sun missing, thus seemingly
established the dead mans identity The
| head is still missing, but the body has
| been Identified, and the mystery unrav-
elled thanks not to the police, but to the
| keen and smart work of New York news
| paper reporters Various semi-ldentifica-
| tons were made, but hour by hour the
| case seemed to grow more and more hope
less. Then reporter got the idea that
| the man in life, judging from his hands,
| was masseur, or something of that kind,
| and he started to work out an identfica-
ton on this basis. He visited the Muir
| ray Hill Turkish baths, on West Forty
second street to refresh himself after
| hard days search, end there he learned
that one of the attendants, William Gull
| densuppe had not been seen for couple
| of days. The missing man had been en-
| ployed as a rubber in the baths, and had
a prominent tattooed mark on his breast.
| Close inquiries elected the information
! that Guldensuppe had disappeared on
| Thursday might or early on Friday morn
| ing, the very day upon which the murder
| was supposed to have been committed.
+ Where did he live? Who were his friends?
| Had he wife? Or was there a woman
mixed up in his affairs? Love and jeal-
| ousy might account for the committal of
| so terrible deed. The reporter discoV-
cred that there was a woman named MRS.
| Augusta Mack, who had abandoned her
| husband for Guldensuppe. Here was
| a clew. Might not the husband have had
| hand in the bloody work? Mrs. Mack
| lived on the second floor of No. 4S9 Ninth
| avenue, and thither the reporter went
| Yes, she knew Guldensuppe, but she had
| not seen him for a few days. She was per-
| fectly cool, but there was something about
| her which aroused the suspicious of her
interrogation. He went back to the baths
and had the attendants there, who knew
| Guldensuppe well, go with him to the
morgue, These men had no difficulty in
| identifying the trunk and arms as those
| of Guldensuppe. They had known him
| for years, and had daily seen him strip
| ped to his waist at his work. Where the
skin was cut from the breast Guldensuppe
| had carried the tattoo marks which
would have made identification easy, but
it was evident they had been removed to
| prevent their serving such purpose. The
| reporter hen hurried back to Mrs. Mack S
| house, where he found her preparing to
move to another residence. The woman
was perfectly cool, and answered all ques-
tons plausibly, but as was discovered al
| most Immediately, lied unhesltatingly.
These lies have helped to weave network
| of damaging evidence around her. Other
| reporters kept watch on the house, so
| that the midwife might be tracked where
ever she went, and then the story was
given to the police, who were still fioun-
! dering in the dark
| Mrs Mack was arrested, and her hus-
| band from whom she was separated, was
| captured while driving a bread wagon. He,
| however, established his innocence sufTi-
| GENTLY we'll to procure his discharge. By
this time it was learned that Guldensuppe
had a rival for the affection of Mrs. Mack,
| in one Martin Thorne barber. Both men
had quarreled about the woman and had
| threatened each others lives.
| Where was Thorn? He had disappeared
| as completely as IT, the earth had opened
| and swallowed him. A call for his arrest
was sent out by the police authorities and
| for days the public waited anxiously for
his capture. 1t was believed that he had
shipped for Germany and that he would
be taken into custody on his arrival there.
Meanwhile the missing legs were found
close to the navy yard in Brooklyn. They
were tied up in oil CLOTH paper and cheese
| cloth, similar to the Wrappings of the two
| bundles previously found. The bath at
| PENDANTS made the identification more pos
tive as they easily recognized the limbs
of those of Guldensuppe on account