The copper country evening news., 1897-11-09
GULDENSUPPE MURDER
Martin Thorn on Trial for His Life
in New York.
THE CASE WILL BE SENSATIONAL.

Prisoner Is Charged with the Murder OF
Guldensuppe, Whom He Had Supplanted
in the Affections of Mrs. Nack-The
Woman Will lie Tried for Completely I'm
the Crime After the Thorn Case Is Set
tled-Selecting the Jury.
New York, Nov. 9.-To unravel the
tangled skein of one of the most mystic
yious as well as heinous crimes of the
century is the task for a jury, the Sc
lection of which was begun Monday in
the Queens county court of oyer and
terminer at Long Island City. The case.
officially known as the People VS.. Mar
tin Thorn. is based upon the discovery
in June last in East river and in Ogden's
woods, north of this city of portions of
a human body The head was missing.
BY a series of curious links in a chain
Of circumstantial evidence the dismem-
bered remains have been identified by
a number of witnesses as portions of
the body of William Guldensuppe, a
rubber in a Turkish bathhouse in this
city. Guldensuppe had not been at his
work for several days before the ghast-
~ ul0CbNCiltS VI ms SuppOStu IfHldiilS'
nor has he yet been seen since that
time. unless, as it is alleged, it was in
Germany by a certain Carl Peterson, Of
whom none appear TO know except
counsel for the man who was put on
trial for having committed the murder
of the missing man
Motive for the Murder.
The postulate Of the identity OF the
corpse being conceded the next thing tc
be done was to look UP Guidenguppe
| connections and from them ascertain a
possible motive for his murder. Ii was
easily ascertained that he had lived on
terms of intimacy with Nrs Augusta
Mack, a midwife, but that some tire be-
| fore the disapeparance Of Guidere0, ~c
| the pair had Guarreled ard That I'm The
J woman's fiat Guldersuppe had fou7ht
with ard beaten Martin Thorn. harbcr
the man who had supplanted him ir J c'
J affection, and that Thorn, sr2rt'r~ ur-
der the beating he had received vas
I overheard 10 threaten 10 get even VitA
| Gudersuppe.
| Here, then. We're motives that might
! have inspired mulGcr-a woman Gcsir-
Gus CO being rid Of a discarded lov2r
| whose proximity might at any moment
1 DtttIlE lIOubltSOiiltt anu ltit 1AAN''''i'f'
rival. who had cnce experienced the ~u-
| perior physical prowess Of his predeCc@-
sor I'm the wCman's affections, ard might
again be made TO suffer the pain AID
humiliation Of a beating.
Arrest of Mrs. Mack.
The arrest of Mrs Mack followed a
few days later by that Of Thorn, whom
the police had some difficulty in finding
J but whose whereabout. were disclosed by
John Gotha, another barber and a rel
ative by marriage of the accused man
| Gotha has made the statement upor
! which the police rely to aid in Thorn:
conviction, that Thorn admitted his guilt
! to him. and since Thorn has been con-
fined two men who shared his cell with
him at different times have told Of In
eliminating admissions by the accused
man. There have also been at Intervals
reports that Mrs. Mack had virtually
admitted her guilt, but all of these
statements are more or less inconclu
sive.
Briefly. it is alleged that Mrs Nacl
lured Guldensuppe to cottage II
! Woodsde, l.. l.. where she said she wa
| about to establish a baby farm" tina
In room in that cottage Thorn waylait
and shot Guldensuppe. afterward sew
ering his head, dismembering his corps
and eisposing of the remains in various
ways.
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