The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-08

New York, Nov. "A murder as
shocking in the fiendish details of its
execution, as ever took place within the
the confines of a great city, was pre-
sumably committed on Friday, June
%, in a lonely cottage at Woodside, L..
L, William Guldensuppe, a Turkish
bath attendant, was the victim, and
Martin Thorn. a barber, and Augusta
Mack, midwife stand accused of be-
ing his murderers. Today their trial
will begin at Long Island City before
Judge Maddox.
The story of the crime bristles with
details of the degeneracy of human
beings No act was ever more care
fully planned. nor did murderers ever
take pains to cover UP their tracks
better by effectually disposing of the
remains of their victim, yet within "a
hours it was known to the world that
a murder had been committed and the
pursuit of the butchers had been be-
gun.
THE DISCOVERY.
Two of these youths of the lower east
side of New York, who spend their
summer DAYS in the East river or on
accidental discoveries of the horrible
crime. The boys We're John Mcguire
and James McKenna. They were pre-
pairing for their afternoon dip" June
% at the foot of East Eleventh street
When the sight of a rather strange
looking bundle floating with the tide
FASTENED their movements. In a mo-
ment they were in the water and tow
ing the bundl1 inshore. Once back on
II. -,
ting the stout cord which was wound
around their prize and under a roll of
oil cloth which formed the outer cover
ing. But they had not yet reached the
contents of the bundle. There were still
other coverings of heavy brown paper
and cheesecloth. When those had been
removed there was a yell of terror.
There on the pier lay the
MUTILATED TRUNK OF A MAN
with the arms folded across the breast.
1t was the upper portion of the body
from the hips to the throat. The arms
had been allowed to remain. From the
! breast a slice of skin had been re-
moved and over the spot the unfortun-
ate mans arms had been placed as if
to conceal it.
The other discovery was made on
Sunday morning, June q. A man and
Two DONS, Wllle plChluS DtllItS III OES
/ den woods, in the far northern part of
| the city, many miles from East Elev-
enth, found a bundle which was sim
liar to that picked UP the day before
in the East river. In oilcloth, brown
paper and cheese cloth was wrapped
he lower half of a mans trunk. II
was the half missing from the East
river find. The head and legs were
still missing, thus seemingly rendering
| it impossible to establish the dead
mans identity. The head is still miss
ing but the body has been identified
and the mystery unraveled, thanks tc
the keen and smart work of New York
newspaper reporters.
QUARRELED ABOUT A WOMAN
1t was learned at the Murray Hill
Turkish bath on West Forty-second
| street that one of the attendants, Will
| liam Guldensuppe had not been seer
! for a couple of days. 1t was also dis
/ covered that there was a woman
named Mrs. Augusta Mack, who had
/ abandoned her husband for Gulden-
suppe, and that Guldensuppe had a
rival for the affections of Mrs. Mack in
one Martin Thorn, a barber. Both
, men had quarreled about the woman
and had threatened each others lives
Meanwhile the missing legs were
| found close to the navy yard in Brook
| ~ Loot come tC,a o,.,.ae+ &c rryi,-