Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-27
Martin Thorn Declares the Woman
Killed Guldensuppe.
DETAILS OF TEE AWFUL CRIME
He Helped the Woman Dispose Of
the Remains.
WHAT CAPT. O'BRIEN KNOWS,

| ing statement, signed by Martin Thorn Is
| published In an evening paper today:
when 1 go on the stand Monday morn
| ing 1 will tell the true and complete story
of the crime for which 1 am now being
! tried for my life. My lawyer has advised
| me to conceal nothing. and. with the help
| of God, will not.
Martin Thorn is just a man. with vices
and virtues like any ether and with the
ioVe OF life just as strong within him as IN
| any OF those who say he sinned because he
| ioVed an unworthy woman-loyed and
| trusted and shielded her until he was in
| the very shadow of the electric chair: loved
her until she swore away his existence to
save her own. to save herself from the
consequences of her own act-the killing OF
'he man whom she said she feared, because
| Oh MS knowledge of other crimes
Direct Charge of Murder
Augusta Mack planned and ACCOMPLISHED
| the murder of William Guldensuppe.
when L got to the Woodside cottage
that saturday morning she met me at the
| door and said: L have got Guidensuppe up-
| stairs He is dead
She had shot him in the face and stab
oed him in the breast, she said I was
not even In the house at the time, but in
the doorway, and she was out of sight of
the people on the, street at the time half
way upstairs. 1 knew nothing of her nur-
pose that day She had asked me to come
10 Woodsice. L went there, and when 1
arrived she told me that she had killed
over. '
For a long time / hardly knew what IN
90. mrs Mack asked me to help her cut
tne BODY up. L hesitated, but could not
make up my mind.
Pressed Thorn Into Service.
You have got to help me get rid of it,
she said, or both of us will get into trouble.
All you have got to do is to help At last L
helped her to carry the body to the bath
tub. 1t was very heavy. Guldensuppe was
dead. He was not breathing when We put
him in the bath tub. Mrs. Mack did the
cutting while | held the body. First she
cut the head off. then she took the saw and
sawed the trunk in two and then the legs.
she was afraid the saw would go through
the wrong place in the body, but she finally
got the right place.
She mentioned at the time that it was a
good thing she knew something about
surgery, or else it would be impossible TO
get rid of the body properly. Before she
cut the body up the clothes were taken of
Afterward the body was rolled up in the
oilcloth and cloth that Mrs Mack bought
at Mrs. Riger's. Then talked over the
plans to get rid of the body. She arranged
for the surrey drive and the throwing away
of the pieces. She gave me the money to
hire the surrey.
Woocside cottage. where she said she was
to start place to treat women who were
in trouble and who wanted it kept quiet.
Burned Guldensuppe's Clothes.
After We threw the head into the river
and disposed of pieces of body, the
papers have stated. she took Guldensuppe's
clothes and burned them in stove.
1T was nothing but my love for Mrs.
Mack that got ME into all this trouble.
helped her get rid of the dead body to
shield her and to save her from being ar
rested.
Everybody has lied about me in this
case, principally because L have hot talked
or explained.
They say 1 told Gotha that / killed
Guldensuppe. 1t is lie. 1 told him that
Mrs. Mack killed him. They say 1 offered
TO confess to Capt. O'Brien so 1 could get
free That is another lie. 1 told Capt.
O'Brien something of private nature that
did not concern the case intimately. L
give him permission to speak now. He will
clear me.
His life Threatened.
They say, too, that / threatened to mur-
Ger William Guldensuppe. Yes; / said I
would kill him before he killed me. He
almost killed me and threatened my life
every time he mentioned my name to Mrs.
Mack Augusta told me SO, and told me to
look out and have pistol TO shoot him.
but not to do it in her house. She would
get into trouble, she said. 1 thought she
told me that because she loved me. 1 now
know she feared Guldensuppe and wanted
to have me kill him, she would not
suffer.
Mrs. Mack told the jury that I commit
ted the murder in just the way she actually
did it herself. She turned everything
around She reversed the whole story, ac-
cusing me of just what she did.
Afraid to Go ON the stand.
'-She is afraid to go on the stand. Her
lawyers will not let her go on and testify
against me, because they know that ] can
prove her a liar-can prove that she her
self killed Guldensuppe because he knew Of
other crimes she had committed and be-
cause she was afraid that Guldensuppe
would kill her for having had anything to
do with me.
II can ask that woman questions that she
cannot answer without showing con-
clusvely that she has sworn to lies; and,
what is more. 1 have witnesses to cor
roborate me.
(signedD MARTIN THORN"
Case Nearing an End.
There Is every probability that the case
of Martin Thorn, on trial for the murder of
William Guldensuppe, will go TO the jury
not later than Wednesday next, and pos
sibly Tuesday night. William F. Howe.
Thorn's lawyer, has promised to finish his
side of the case OF Monday.
Reason Mrs. Mack Did Not Testify.
Mr.. Youngs says the reason he closed the
case for the state without calling Mrs.
Mack as a witness was because in his opin-
ion the people had presented a case strong
enough to convict Thorn without the
wcman's confession.
District Attorney Olcott Of New York
ccrcurs with Mr.. Youngs in his opinion.
The usual stories were circulated today
that Mrs. Mack and Thorn were about to
break down. but Sheriff Doht says the pris-
oners are unchanged, except they are both
anxious to have the trial over.
When Thorn's fate has been decided Mrs.
Nack's case will come up. II is generally
supposed that she will be allowed to plead
guilty either to murder in the second de-
gree, or manslaugkter in the first degree.
For murder in the second degree she would
receive a sentence OF Imprisonment for life
and for manslaughter in the first degree
the extreme penalty is twenty years.
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