The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-11-30
DETAILS OF, THE MURDER OF
EULDENsUPPE GIVEN By THE
PRISONER.
AccEssoRY,AFTER THE FACT.
MRS, Mack DIRECTLY CHARGED
WITH THE COMMISSION OF
THE CRIME.
TAKING TESTIMONY COMPLETED.
Early This Afternoons
ThOrn's Story

NEW YORK, Nov. 29.-The trial of
Martin Thorn for the murder Of Gull
densuppe was closed tonight so far as
the taking of evidence was concerned.
Tomorrow morning the lawyers for the
defendant and the people will sum UP
and 1t is expected that Justice Mad
dox will charge the jury early in the
afternoon. Mr.. Howe will begin his
final appeal in Thorn's behalf at half
past and he expects to conclude be-
fore noon. District Attorney Youngs
will then have his say for the prosecu-
ton and he expects to finish within
two hours 1t is not expected that the
charge of Justice Maddox Will be very
lengthy SO that by o'clock in the
afternoon the case may be with the
jury
Opinions, both lay and legal differ
very materially as to the probable re-
suit. Many look for a conviction, but
a greater number anticipate a disagree
ment.
A few Of Thorn's former employers
were called by the defense today and
they all gave the accused barber an
excellent character dating back some
ten years. Thorn himself was the only
other witness called FOR the defense.
From the moment he was led to the
witness chair until he left it some
hours later, the prisoner conducted
himself in a cool and impressive man
ner. His statements in reply to gen
eral questions and his answers in the
direct and cross examinations were de-
which could be heard distinctly by all
in the court room. At times his voice
would drop SO that he could not lie
heard a few feet away but Mr. Howe
reminded the witness at those times
that he should speak louder. and those
admonitions always had the desired eff
feet
Thorn, IN his story of the murder
deliberately accused Mrs. Mack of hav-
ing shot Guldensuppe. and declared
that when he CThorn) reached the
Woodside cottage between IL and II
O'Clock on Friday, June %, the woman
met him at the door and told him that
Guldensuppe was lying dead upstairs
and that she had shot and killed him.
This, said Thorn, was the first intima-
ton he had of the purpose for which
Mrs. Mack had rented the Woodside
cottage. Up to that moment he had
understood she was going to start
baby farm there and that he was to
live with her and share the profits
He described in detail how, after
Mrs. Mack had begged of him to help
her get rid Of the body, he accompa-
MED her to the room on the second
floor, where he found Guldensuppe ly-
ing on his side. dead from a bullet
wound in the right side of the head.
Mrs. Mack told him that she had car
ried the revolver in her hand covered
by handkerchief. and that, as Gull
densuppe was looking into a closet,
she shot him in the side Of the head.
Thorn said he went out and brought
two pounds Of plaster of Paris, at
Mrs. Nacks direction, and returned
with it shortly afterwards This was
about noon. When he got back to
where the body lay. Mrs. Mack was
still there, and he helped her undress
the corpse Between them, they car
ried the body to the bath tub, and
Mrs. Mack cut it into five pieces. She
first cut the head from the trunk,
with the aid of knife and saw. Then
she severed the trunk and boasted of
her knowledge of anatomy while so
doing. The knife looked like a butch
er'S knife. 1t was not a stillettO or
dirk knife Mrs. Mack, according to
the witness. remained there all that
day until 4 o'clock in the afternoon
when she went out to get some fresh
air, as it was very warm and suitry
in the house. About o'clock she re-
turned, and then she carried bundle,
containing the murdered mans clothes
and the pistol, saw and knife, and he,
with the head in a parcel under his
arm, left the house and took a trolley
car to the Ninety-second street ferry
to New York. From the rear of the
boat he dropped the head into the East
river, and when they reached New
York, she went to her rooms on Ninth
avenue and burned the clothes in a
cooking stove. The next day the rest
of the body was made up into three
parcels and disposed Of in the manner
which Mrs. Mack stated at the last
trial.
In rebuttal, three witnesses swore
that they had seen Mrs. Mack in her
rooms in New York between 2:3O
o'clock and 4 o'clock on the afternoon
| of June 20, and Mrs. Valley said that
she had seen Mrs. Mack leave the cot
tage about twenty minutes after she
and the man with the light suit had
entered. The prosecution did not put
Mrs. Mack on the stand, and the court
ruled against Mr. Howe's attempt to
introduce the testimony given by Mrs.
Mack at the mistrial