The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-08

GULDENSUPPE
MURDER CASE

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the body first found, nothing was left
10 perfect the identification but the
head At last came the arrest Of
Thorn. The man had never left the
city He had merely shaved off his
moustache and with this simple dis
Suise he rubbed clothes with the Off
GERS who were looking for him. Had
he held his tongue he could probably
nave continued to live in this city un-
molested. Thorn, however, liked his
Deer and was fond of company. His
terrible secret was too much for him,
and so one day he unburdened his
mind to an old friend and fellow bar
Der, John Gotha. Gotha he swore to
secrecy, but the secret was too much
for the latter also. He would at least
tell his wife all he knew. Mrs. Gotha
once in possession of the dread story
could not, and would not rest until
the police had also heard it. Her
brother was police officer and to him
she told the story of Thorn's admis-
sion. The detectives at once waited
on Gotha and he confirmed the tale
told by his wife. The arrest of Thorn
followed. Gotha made an appointment
to meet him at One Hundred and
Twenty-fifth street and Eighth ave-
nue., although Thorn demurred at first
and expressed himself as anxious to
meet Gotha in a more lonely and un-
frequented place. Gotha and his fam
lily believe now that Thorn had re-
GREETED having committed his secret to
the keeping of his friend and resolved
to Kill him. Gotha induced Thorn to
meet him at night on the corner men,
toned and as soon as Gotha walked
towards him Thorn was surrounded by
detectives and thus his arrest was eff.
fected.
THORN'S STORY.
Thorn's story to Gotha was to the
effect that Guldensuppe haG been
brought by Mrs. Mack to her cottage
in Woodside, L. l., which she had rent
ed for the purpose of starting a baby
farm and that he CThorn) lay in wait
for the bath-rubber. in closet in ar
upstairs room. When Guldensuppe
reached the house Mrs. Mack told him
to go upstairs and examine the rooms
while she went into the yard. Gulden
suppe hesitated but finally went up
stairs and passed from room to room.
peering into the closets until he
reached the one in which Thorn wac
hidden. AS soon as the unsuspecting
man opened the door Thorn shot him
in the head and then dragged him to
the bath-tub, into which he threw him.
If Gotha's story be true Thorn ac.
knOwledged that while Guldensuppe
was yet alive the barber drew knife
or razor and cut his throat. The d.
vision of the body was next made and
two of the bundles were dropped over
board from a ferry boat in the cas-.
river. Another he left in the woods
having driven there in company with
Mrs. Mack. The head he encased ir
plaster of paris and sank it in the
East river. Mrs. Mack had helped
Thorn to make up the bundles and II
was she who purchased the wrapping
material. Gotha's statement has beer
proven to be correct in many particu-
lars, save that as to the disposition o!
the head. Thorn's reasons for killing
Guldensuppe were revenge for his hav.
ing once beaten him and a desire to be
free to live with Mrs. Mack. Report
ers discovered the woman who sold
Mrs. Mack the oilcloth and the mar
who rented the Woodside house to her.
self and Thorn and these two positively
identified the prisoners. People in the
neighborhood of the cottage We're found
who had seen what they considered t.
be bloody water flowing from the drain.
pipe of the cottage on that Friday
evening. The drain-pipe in question
is the only outlet from the bath-tub II
I'll, IL.
murdered mans throat. In the house
itself boOdstains We're detected and
bullets We're found in the surface ant
embedded in the walls.
AN ALLEGED CONFESSION.
Since his arrest Thorn, it is alleged
has made a confession, and the author
tiles in Long Island City discovered
the compromising letter which he tried
to swallow. The letter showed an in
tention on the part of both the mar
and woman to cheat the law by com
mitting suicide. While they were con
fined in the Tombs prison it was i'm
possible for them to communicate will
each other, but since they were trans
ferred to the Queens county Jail the!
seemed to have been able to eXchang,
correspondence. District Attorney OIL
colt, of this county, and District At
| torney Youngs, of Queens county, af
ter due deliberation, decided that /
was better to try the case in Queen
| county, as the murder is alleged I,
| have been committed there, although
| the plot was cOncocted in New York.
Thorn, it is said, told a fellow pris
oner that he would have completed tn
lob" as he termed it, beyond tn
| possibility of detection if Mrs. Nacl
! had not been too hurried about tn
| disposition of the various portions o
| the body. On the other hand it |
said that Mrs. Mack, in a letter t
her paramour, had told him that h
talked too much. An instance of hi
talking capacity il given in a state
ment made by Frank E. Clarke. VIII
was Thorn's cell mate in the Tombs
| According to Clarke, the alleged mur
derer having drank some whiskey, sup
| piled to Clarke incidentally became s
communicative as to tell him that h
| had thrown Guldensuppes head whic
has not yet been recovered, into
| clump of bushes near the Woodsid
cottage, that from there ii was re
| moved by a friend of Thorn's who, af
terwards, dropped it overheard nea
the fishing banks off Long Branci
| from the fishing boat j. b. SCHUYLER
| which, by the way, was burned to tn
| waters edge few weeks ago. Clarke
story is considered reliable, and it sal
that the friend who disposed of tn
head is Thorns brother-in-law, an
| will be nrO6ucad at tha trial as a Wi!