The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-10
THORN is QUITE A DUDE
THE PROMPTNESS SHOWN THIS
FAR IS SURPRISING
TES fIMONY OF EXPERTS OPENS TO DAY
The Witnesses Yesterday Merely restifed
About Finding the Portions of the Body
at Various Poiots--One Of the Most
Mysterious Murders on Record.

"JSNS'i 'iVdS "uiNC1o OH i|EkUTUs
New York, Nov. 9.-Punctuality seems
to be the watchword of every one con-
cerned in the trial Of Martin Thorn for
the alleged murder of William Gulden-
suppe, which began yesterday morning
in the Queens county court house.
Promptly at 10 O'Clock this morning
District Attorney William ]. Young. hia
assistants and the lawyers for the de-
tense, were in their places, and the
prosecutor began his opening address,
Martin Thorn hand cuffed to Captain
MethOrn, and escorted by a constable,
was brought into court a few minutes
before the district attorney began speak
ing. Thorn was dressed as on yester-
day, with his face cleanIy shayeu and
nair parted in the middle and carefully
brushed back from his forehead. Twenty
witnesses were summoned for examina-
ton to-day and the district attorney
took them one by one just as the fnd-
ng of the different portions Of the body
opened up to the public the fact that
4 terrible crime had been committed.
The four principal witnesses were the
boys, while swimming in the East river,
had found the upper portion of the sev~
cred trunk, and then followed the police
men, who were called to the scene Of the
dnd.ng and they in turn were followed
by witnesses who testifer to the bring
ing or that part of the body to the
mOrgue. The discovery of the lower part
of the trunk from which the legs were
severed half way between the thighs
and knees, was then taken u, andeyery
lperson who handled it until il was de-
posted with the morgue keeper, was ex-
amined and each one in turn identified
the paper, oilcloth and cheese cloth in
which the part was wrapped. The rest
Of the afternoon was taken up by the
description of those who discovered and
| Inspected the bundle found floating at
the Brooklyn navy yard, and as in the
other 20 instances, the carrying of
these abs was followed from the navy
road cob dock to the New York morgue
lat Bellevue Hospital Then the morgue
keeper was put on the stand and he
testified to the accuracy of several photo
graphs, which he said were true repre-
sentati0ns of the portions of the body
which are now in glass jars preserved
for Identification in the m0rgue. Lawyer
| Howe made several objections to the
photographs being admitted rs evidence
as the parts We're still in the m6rgue
keepers possession, and insisted that
they should be produced in court.
/ Judge Smith overruled Mr.. uowe's
objections.
| At O'clock all the witnesses who had
| been summoned to court for examina-
/ ton had given their testimony, and as
/ there were no more witnesses available
| the prosecution asked for an adjourn
ment until tomorrow morning. The
court granted the request. 1t is ex-
lpected that the greater part of the testi-
10, ho
mical experts who will be produced by
the people to prove that the parts be-
longed to the same body, and also, if
possible, to prove the cause Of death.
The district attorney believes that he
can prove these things to the satisfaca
| ton of the jury, which he intends TO
convince the court and jurors that the
headless body, which was so savagely
IdiSmembered is none other than that OF
the missing bath rubber, William
/ Guldensuppe,
SUPPOSED MOTIVES =
The prosecution will maintain that
Guldensuppe had lived on terms of in.
timacy with Mrs. Augusta Mack, a mid.
wife, but some time before the dis
appearance of Guldensuppe the pair had
quarreled and that in the woman's fat
Guldensuppe had fought with and beaten
the man who had Supplanted him in the
mistress affections. Martin Therne, a
barber, who, smarting under the heatT"--p
he had received, was overheard to threat.
en- to get even with GGidensuppe.
Here, then, were motives that miebt
have caused murder-a woman desirous
Of being rid of a discarded lover. whoSa
proximity might at any moment become
troublesome and the successful rival
who had once experienced the superior
physical prowess of his predecessor In
the woman's affections, and might again
he made to suffer the pain and humilja.
ton Of a beating.
HOW He WAS MURDERED.
Briefly it is alleged that Mrs. Nacp
lured Gnldensuppe to n cottage in Wood
side, Long Island, where she said she was
about to establish a "haby farm" thar
in room in that cottage Thorne wavs
laid md shot Guldensuppe. afterwards
severing his head, dismembering bis
CORPSE and disposing of the remains IN
various ways.
Al