The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-25
PLAN OF THE DEFENSE
LAWYER HOWE WILL SAY THAT
MRS. MACK DID IT.
MRS. MACK BROUGHT INTO COURT
She Looked PaIer For Her Two Weeks Con-
finement- Thorn's Statement When He
Was First Arrested A Similar State
ment from Mrs. Mack.

New York, Nov. 24-The trial of Mar
tin Thorn for the murder of VIM. Gull
densuppe was continued in the Queens
county court to-day. A fortnight ago
Mrs. Mack created a sensation by going
on the stand and accusing Thorn of
having killed her former lover, Guden-
suppe. Since that time the defense has
changed its base, and as Mr.. Howe said
in court to-day, the defendants lawyers
Will now endeavOr to prove through
Thorn as the principal witness that Mrs
Mack herself committed the crime. The
early part of to-day's proceedings was
entirely taken up with evidence to prove
the corpus deficit. Coroner Tuthill, dur
ing his examination, stated that the
cause of death was a stab wound be-
tween the fifth and sixth ribs, which
penetrated the heart. Later in the day
the prosecution attorneys, through a fell
low barber of Thorn, connected him with
the possession of a stiletto, the blade of
which was over six inches in length.
The District Attorney tried very hard
to get this witness to testify that Thorn
had spoken of his relations with Mrs
Mack and Guldensuppe, but Lawyer
Howe was equal to the occasion, and
although Mr.. Young was assisted by
Mr.. Olcott, and advised by Surrogate
Weller, in the formation of his questions,
the court invariably sustained Mr.
Howes objections.
Some of the witnesses examinal to-
day reside in Woodside, and they told
of the visits of Il gaily dressed woman
who appeared in the vicinity of the cot
tage with a man in light colored clothes
on the day of the alleged murder, June
10Th, They had also seen man wear
ing dark blue clothes about the house.
and on the day IN question he was seen
by one witness TO go in and out of the
house frequently. Three of them identi-
fed Thorn as the man in dark clothes
and two of them identified photographs
of Guldensuppe as being representations
of the man who had worn the light suit
None of them, however, had seen any
traces of the latter after he had entered
the cottage on that Friday morning.
Lawyer Howe requested the court to
have Mrs. Mack produced, in order that
she might be identified by the witnesses.
This request brought about legal argu-
ment, and finally Mr.. Howe was COM
PEELED to swear out a writ compelling
the sheriff to produce her. Mrs. Mack
was brought into court, after the mid
day recess, looking much paler than
when she appeared two weeks ago in the
same court. The prisoner did not pay
much attention to her, as he was deeply
interested in the evidence which was
being adduced at the time. The morbid
curiosity of the majority of the specta-
tors was gratified at the afternoon ses-
sion by the production in court of
piece of the bone of one of Guldensuppe's
thighs, to which was attached some
shreds of flesh. This CHASTITY exhibit
was sealed in a glass jar, which was
filled with whitish preserving liquid.
DR.. OHanlon, the coroner's physician
who had examined the different parts
of the body, did not open the jar, as Mr.
Howe said 1t was unnecessary. The
witness explained that he cut this por-
ton off to show how minutely it fitted
into the corresponding piece of the bone
which protruded from the stump of the
lower part of the trunk. Police Can
tain Stephen O'Brien, formerly in charge
of the New York Detective Bureau, was
on the stand for considerable portion
of the afternoon and told a great deal
Of what Martin Thorn had said to him
when the prisoner was being put
through what is known among criminals
as "the third degree" Thorn, at that
time had denied all knowledge of the
killing of Guldensuppe, but said he had
driven Mrs. Mack to the Woodside cot
tage on Saturday, June Goth, in two
seated wagon, for the purpose of bring
ing a bundle of carpets to the new
house. Capt. OBrien also said that
when he was questioning Mrs. Mack,
when she was arrested four days after
the murder was alleged to have been
committed, she said:
"Guldensuppe did not treat me right.
love Thorn and would die for him"
1t was at this time that Mr.. Howe
said: "We say right now and will show
that Mrs. Mack committed the murder |
and what she said to the Captain will |
bear US out"