The record-union., 1897-07-01
William Gu|densuppe Was the Un-
fortunate Victim.
His Legs Found Off the Brooklyn Navy
Yard.
Mrs. Augustine Mack, With Whom
He Had Lived, Under Arrest for
the Murder-It Is Thought An
other of Her Lovers, Who Has
disappeared, Was Party to the
Crime.

Disappeared, Was a Party to the
Crime.
NEW YORK, June 3O.-The headless
body in the Morgue has been identified
by ten men as that of William Gulden-
suppe "a rubber in Turkish bath es
tablishment in this city. The head is
lacking to complete the body The first
fragment of the body, from the neck
to the waist, was found in East River
on Saturday. The second fragment,
the lower portion of the trunk. was
found in the Ogden woods, north of
Harlem River, on Sunday The legs
were found in the river off the Brook
lyn Navy Yard this afternoon.
Guldensuppe had recently been living
with Mrs. Augustine Mack. who left
her husband for Guldensuppe. Mrs.
Mack had quarreled with Guldensuppe
last Thursday ON account of his sup
posed unfaithfulness to her. She is
held prisoner at police headquarters
and will be charged with murder. A
storekeeper at Astoria, L. L. has identi-
fed her as the woman to whom he
sold oil cloth in which the fragments
of the body were wrapped.
Detectives searched the rooms of Mrs.
Mack and found hidden there pieces of
this red and yellow oil cloth.
Mrs. Mack when arrested was pre-
pairing to leave for Europe
The man Mack, husband of the wo-
man, was arrested to-day, but subse-
quently released, as he proved a COM
plete aIbi. Mack said that his wife
was capable Of committing the murder,
and he suggested that another lover of
Mrs. Mack was implicated.
Mrs. Mack is a Bavarian, SO years old,
large, muscular woman, with deter
mined face. Her second lover. a man
known as Fred cannot be found. He
is supposed to have been a party to
the crime.
Max Riger and wife, who keep a
small store on Long Island, identified
Mrs. Mack as one of the two women
who last Wednesday had bought four
and half yards of red oil cloth, such
as the body was wrapped in.
While this was happening at police
headquarters two reporters of the
journal and Advertiser" which paper
had given the clews leading to Mrs
Nacks arrest, traced Mrs Nack's hus-
band and arrested him while he was
driving his bakery wagon Mack re-
sisted arrest furiously and was taken
to the station-house half demented with
rage and fear. 1t proved that he had
that he had made all his arrangements
to leave town.
Two boys while swimming in the
Walabout Basin, near the Brooklyn
Navy Yard, found two male legs
wrapped in a canvas 1t is believed
that the legs are those of Guldensuppe.
The positive and indubitable identifi-
cation is made by the Superintendent of
the baths and five attendants, who had
seen the man naked day after day for
years and knew every mark on him. He
was further identified by DR.. J. S. Cos
by of 10 FOrty-fourth street Dr.
Cosby had lanced and treated a felon
on the index finger of Guldensuppe's
left hand. AT the Morgue DIR. Cosby in
stantly identified the cicatrice of the
wound his lancet had made
Guldensuppe had been a sailor. On
his breast was totooed in India ink the
figure of woman. It covered a space
as large as mans hand. The butcher
who cut him I'D cut this out. Gulden-
suppe eft the baths last Friday morn
ing. He disappeared. In all the four
years Of his employment there he had
never missed a days work. No word
has been received from him.
Guldnsuppe lived with Mrs. Augusta
Mack, a midwife, at 339 Fifth avenue,
near Thirty-fourth street. She is sepa-
rated from her husband. Mack threat
ened Guldensuppe.
A man who lived with the Nacks be-
fore Guldensuppe came, and who is
Nack's friend, had openly threatened
Guldensuppe. The big masseur had
sIipplanted him and thrashed him after
taking away his pistol.
Mrs. Mack says she does not know and
does not care where Guldensuppe is;
that she has not since him since Friday
morning, the day before the body was
found in East River. The night before
she had seen him take another womans
card Then this man and Mrs. Mack
quarreled. He made her give him 50
and went away. AT l O'Clock on Tues
day morning a reporter went to Mrs.
Nack's house. The rooms were in per-
feet order, as If she intended to live there
the rest of her life. Seven hours later
the woman had seen the landlord and
given up the flat She had employed
four men, who were at work dismantlinG
the rooms She said her mother was ill
and she was going to Europe.
Mrs Mack vehemently told and re-
peated to detectives who visited her at
2 o'clock this morning that Guldensuppe
was at Mrs. Cunningham house, at q
Bedford street She declared, too. that
Mrs Cunningham had been to her fiat
for his clothes But Guldensuppe was
net at Mrs Cunningham's house. Mrs.
Cunningham had not gone or sent for
his clothes.
Beside Mrs. Mack, when she visited
the bathhouse, told the Superintendent
Culdensuppe would send for his trunk
tomorrow.
A little questioning brought forth the
fact that she (Mrs. NacD and Gulden-
suppe had quarreled and separated. She
is said to have remarked angrily:
"Oh. I suppose he wants to go with
that other woman of his.
Ten Thousand Endeavorers.
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