The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-02
MIDWIFE DENIES THE MURDER.
GROUND FOR SUSPICION AGAINST
HER STILL STRONG.

to Have Nearly Broken Down sew
eraI Times During the Exnmina-
tiOn-POIice Not Positive of Her
Guilt.
New York, July Mrs. Augusta Mack,
the midwife, who is under arrest in con-
nection with the murder of the man sup
posed to be William Guldensuppe spent
the night a prisoner at police headquar-
ters. She still insists that Guldensuppe
has not been murdered and that he will
turn up alive before long. Mrs. Mack
slept well all night.
A reporter found her in cheerful mood
this morning. She insisted that she saw
Guldensuppe on Saturday afternoon, two
hours before the first portion of the body
was found floating in the East river at
the foot of Eleventh street.
There is considerable skepticism among
the police as to the murdered man being
Guldensuppe, Notwithstanding the positive
identification of the deformed finger by
ten of the missing mans friends.
DR.. Crosby, four attendants from the
bath house. and an unknown man called
at the morgue to-day and positively identi-
fed the legs as those OF Guldensuppe.
Every effort is being made to extort an
admission from Mrs. Mack that she has
knowledge of the murder of Guldensuppe.
She was subjected to physical examina-
ton by police station matrons this after
noon, after which it was asserted that her
person showed marks that indicated that
within few days she has been engaged
in hard struggle. During the examina-
ton Mrs. Mack is said to have been al
most hysterical, and to have nearly
broken down several times.
Mrs. Mack was arraigned before police
magistrate by a Gordon of central Office
men and her lawyer. She was visibly
nervous. She listened with eager atten-
tion to all the proceedings. Her attorney
objected to his client being held. There
was no proof that she had committed a
crime.
The magistrate decided to continue the
preliminary hearing from day TO day until
the matter is settled. A formal complaint
will be made when she is again arraigned
tomorrow afternoon.
Inspector OBrien, in charge of the de-
tective bureau, said tonight that he did
not care to speak officially when asked
as to whether the body is that of Gulden-
suppe. but admitted that to be the con-
clusion he had drawn from the evidence
at hand. He positively declined to answer
the question as to whether the murder was
committed in Mrs. Nack's apartments
When she is arrigned tomorrow De-
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witnesses present. including Mrs Riger,
the Long Island City shopkeeper who has
made a statement to the eject that she
sold to a woman whom she substantially
identified as Mrs. Mack. the piece of oil
cloth from which were cut the parts which
appeared around the several parts of the
body when subsequently, found. Detective
o. O'Brien seemed TO express some doubt as
to whether Mrs. Riger will consider her
memory or imprS=jons strong enough TO
swear to the Identification in court. If
she does not, material link in the chain
of evidence against the prisoner will have
been lost.
Detective O'Brien said that he had
caught the prisoner in many contradc-
tions in the course of his interviews with
her, while on the other hand he has been
alb leto corroborate some of her assertions.
He said that he has found the original of
the telegram which Mrs. Mack said Gull
densuppe had sent to her on Saturday aft
ernoon, asking her to go to the baths and
tell the superintendent to put another
man in his place there temporarily. The
acting inspector said that this message
was written in German, and was signed
by the words civilian Gudensuppe," but
he declined to disclose its exact language.
If this telegram is genuine and was in
reality sent by Guldensuppe it Is sufficient
proof that Guldensuppe was alive after
the first portion of the dismembered corpse
was found on Saturday afternoon in the
water Of East river, for 1t was sent some
time after that.
In the search Of the woman's rooms to-
day the police found a small piece OF
white oicloth, similar TO the material OF
that in which the parts were wrapped 1t
is oilcloth Of a common sort and is used
frequently in cases requiring the attend
ance of a midwife. Mrs. Rlger, the Long
Island shopkeeper, said to Detective
Brien that she did not sell any stuff of
that kind TO the woman who bought the
patterned article last week
Nothing else OF suspicious nature was
found in Mrs. Nacks room, as far as the
police would admit II was said that no
blood spots In any part OF the premises
were found and no evidence of a struggle
anywhere about.
The only supposed blood spots thus far
revealed, Detective O'Brien declared, were
on the barrel or revolver found IN the
woman's sitting room. Both Coroner Tut
hin and his physician, DR.. O'Hanlon,
averred that the stains on that weapon
seemed to be blood spots. They were In
doubt as TO whether the saw and butcher
knife were 80 spotted.
Mrs. Emma Miller and her young daugh-
ter. Amy. the latter being the child who
stayed with Mrs. Mack last Saturday
night, we're at police headquarters tonight
and consulted with Detective O'rien, but
the head OF the detective bureau declined
TO say what he had learned from them.
A woman calling herself Mrs. Folsom,
the wife Of Sergt. Folsom Of Fort Hamil-
ton, called at the morgue this afternoon
and after viewing the mutilated body,
said to be the remains OF William Gulden-
suppe. declaring that II Is the corpse OF
her former husband. Alpheus r. Clark.
She claimed to identify Il by ring mark
on the left finger OF the left hand. She
says that Clark disappeared twenty yeats
ago. but returned about six months ago.
She had re-married meantime. and Clark
began suit for divorce, but did not get a
decree.
Judge Burke Dying.
Richmond, Va. July lit Ia not Thought