The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-07-04
THE ROPE TIGHTENING
AND MRS. MACK AND THORN
SURELY THE MURDERERS.
PARTNERS IN THE DEEPEST CRIME
IShrewd Detectives Gain the Needed Evidence
The Darkest Criminals and Most De-
graded Crooks One Captured
the Other ncatad
the Other Located.

New York, July 3.-Several detectives
were sent over to Woodside to-day to
a rumor that a man and wo-
man answering the description of Mrs.
Mack and Thorn had been there on sew
eral occasions, and that last Saturday,
the day of the finding of the first section
of the body, buggy with a man and
woman in it and containing a bundle
was seen to leave there.
Mrs. Nack's story about sending the
valise to Thorn was confirmed by the
statement of John Hunche and Joseph
Reilly. who carried the yalise brought
with them information Of a most startling
character, which leads. to the almost
positive assurance that the murder was
committed in WoodSide, or near it, at
Newton, and that Thorn is still hiding
in this city. 1t was learned that some
time prior to the murder Of Gulden-
suppe the latter and Mrs. Mack were ne
getiating with a real estate dealer named
Bualo for the renting of n house just
at the other side of Woodside, l.. l., in
Newtown. Several visits were pa13 TO
this house by the pair, and it is nov
lieved that Thorn was secreted III
place, awaiting the arrival Of Mrs. \
and Guldensuppe. This was afterl
time the woman had made an appd
ment over the telephone for a trip
| Woodside. After Guldensuppe reache
the house he was murdered and his body
was cut up and distributed about in
| the various places where they were found.
| The buggy with the man, woman and the
bundles were seen leaving Newtown on
| Saturday, June 26th., the day the first
portion of the body was found fiNlting
| in East river.
| This piece of the body is supposed to
have been thrown from the ferry boat
| into the water.
| Moreover the detectives brought back
with them a letter Of the greatest import
ance. 1t was addressed to Mr.. Bualo
and mailed on July End. 1t reads as fol-
| lows:
| New York, July 2, 1897.
| "Mr. Bualo: On account of sickness in
my family / will not move into the house
before another week or ten days.
Respectfully,
"F. BRAUN"
The handwriting in this letter is the
same as that on the telegram which Mrs.
| Clark claims she received from Gulden
suppe, telling her to go to the baths and
see the superintendent. O'Brien believes
| ludL JHey were DOln WTlIleu ny luOTus
! 1t also settles the fact that Thorn has
not yet left the city, and detectives are
hunting tonight in all directions in the
effort to capture him.
| 1t was a theory advanced, however,
which would bear out the woman's
story that Guldensuppe is still alive. 1t
| is morally certain that the person who
sent the telegram and the person who
wrote the letter to Bualo are one and the
same, and if it was not Thorn it must
then have been Guldensuppe, himself,
who is hiding for purposes best known to
| himself.
New York, July 3.-August Petersen,
a nephew of VIM. Guldensuppe who came
from Philadelphia, positively identified
the body at the morgue as that of his
uncle. 1t was also learned that Thorne
was in an east-side saloon ON Tuesday
night last and said that he would go ON
the ocean the next day.
Montreal, July 3.-The Allan line peo-
pie have announced that a man resemb-
ling Thorne, the alleged murderer Of
VIM. Guldensuppe in New York, bought
a ticket for second class passage on
the steamer State of California, which
left last night.