The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-11-30
BATTLING FOR A LIFE
Lawyer William H. Howe
Storms and Shrieks on
Behalf of s'Fiend
Thorn"
HORRIFIED AT MRS. MACK
District Attorney YouDgs Punc-
lures the Eloquential Balloon
--Equals in Guilt.
HORRIFIED AT MRS. MACK

lHto the court room IN Long lSidnu Clty
big building this morning looking none
the worse for his ordeal of several hours
duration on the witness stand yesterday,
when in a clear cut manner he told the
court and jury that Mrs. Augusta Mack
and not he had shot and killed William
Guldensuppe in the Woodside cottage on
Friday, June 25
1horn's eyes were unusually bright
when Captain Methven led him into the
room. 1t was seen that he had been
shaved since yesterday and this improved
his appearance, very much. He chatted
with Lawyers earnestly and MI. Howe
gave him to understand that he would
make an effort to have some evidence
stricken out.
largest since the trial began, was in evil
dence again this morning, but there
were very few women to be seen in the
Court House Railways and not one was
admitted TO the court room.
AS soon as the District Attorney arrived
In court Mr.. Howe made a motion to
have the question asked Thorn yesterday
as to his hearing of the reading of Mr..
ing of the witness, Peterson, from Ger
many being stricken from the record, as
Thorn was not present when the affidavit
was presented and read before Judge
Smith last October.
The Judge directed the stenographer to
strike out all reference to the affidavit
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to pay no attention to it.
Mr.. Howe having gained this point
made an application that the jurymen be
permitted to so to the Woodside cottage
so that they could personally view the
bath tub.
81 want them to see,' said Mr.. Howe,
chow impossible it would be for one per-
son alone to cut up the body as described
in bath tub of the size Of the one in
the Woodside cottage without marking
the sides OF the tub
The peoples lawyers demuired and
the court refused to grant Mr.. Howe's
request. A few minutes later Justice
Maddox recoDsidered his decision ana
allowed the. jury to go the cottage by
trolley car in charge of Detective Davis
Sullivan and six officers.
The court admonished the officers not
to talk to the jurymen in reference to
the case, or to say anything to them dur
ing the examination of the cottage.
The Sheriff was instructed to procure
special trolley car and an adjournment
was declared at 10 o'clock until 1870.
1o:35 p O'CLOCK % al ard / Detective @ sullivan went
in front of them to the cottage, accom-
panied by Captain Methven. Several re-
porters who took other conveyances were
awaiting the arrival of the jury, but be-
fore the Sheriff's deputies allowed the
jury to enter the cottage they ordered all
those who were standing in the roadway
to move at least fifty feet away,
Detective Sullivan then opened the door
of the cottage and the jurynen filed in;
The inspection of the cottage occupied
about eight minutes, during which time
a crowd of villagers assembled, but they
all had to obey the Sheriff's mandate,
and contented themselves with gazing at
the front of the cottage until the jurymen
vacated the two-story frame structure.
The drain into which the pipe from the
famous bath tub empt1es separated the
marshy plot on which the crowd stood,
from the roadway in front Of the cottage,
and a couple of dozen ducks and geese
kept padding through such parts of it as
were several women and not a few chill
dren in the crowd of spectators. Many
of the women who had been denied adj
mittance to the court did the next best
thing on the programme and they crowd
ed the trolley cars, with the exception of
the jury's special both going and return
ing from Woodside.
The conductor of one of the largest
cars caused no little comment by an
nouncing as the vehicle neared the corner
lot on which the slaughter house
cottage"
The jury re-entered the Court Room
at half past eleven o'clock, evidently feel
ing better after their brief excursion. AS
soon as they had answered their names
when called by the Clerk of the Court,
the latter notified one of the officers to
notify the District Attorney that the
Court was waiting for him Mr.. Youngs
arrived minute later, and Mr. Howe
Immediately began his summing up for
the defense.
addressed the jury in a very solemn man
ner and quiverfng. voice.
He told them they had an awful duty
to perform, ard he felt confident that
they would do their duty to the people
and his client alike; after careful con-
sideration o1 the evidence and the legal
instructions of the learned Judge.
The lawyer earnestly asked the jury
men to go about their duty carefully; to
examine their conscience strictly and say
whether they believed the frank state
af nm, fIa e-tn
been admitted in evidence here gentle
men that Mrs Mack said to Captain
oErien, I love Thorn dearly, and
made another man die for him.
Mr.. Howe then went through the case
and made some very telling points
Haftner for he keys of the cottage, gen
tlemen?' asked the counsel, Il repeat
why did size not? You know. you know
to anything that Mrs. Mack said on the
previous trial when she was a witness, l
say again, gentlemen, you know well.
Continuing Mr Howe referred to the
q witness OH this trial, and said:-''Your
District Attorney is too astute a man to
bring her here to be fefuted. She is saw
ed and Thorn is on trial for his life.
God forbid that justice shall ever be adj
minstered in this State or country so that
a murderess may escape and this man,
pointing lDe pTlSOuGr,- ever subjected
to even a ten years Imprisonment"
In speaking of the evidence adduced in
rebuttal last evening, Mr.. Howe said
Gentlemen, you heard witnesses say
that Mrs. Mack was seen in her apart
ments on the afternoon of June Is TRIM
ming a hat. Trimming hat, gentlemen;
Just think of it! Trimming hat on the
evening of the day that she trimmed the
dead body of her lover whom she killed
in the morning..
Mr. Howe spoke of Gotha as "a Ju-
das. "a Harvey Duff, who for the sake
of money was ready to sell his master
or his intimate friend. He said from the
day that Gotha appeared in Police Head
quarters, with handouts on him, so as
to make Thorn believe he was also a
prisoner, until the day he appeared on
the witness stand, Gotha had never done
a days work. but lived on the blood
money which he got very frequently from
several officers who were building up
the case against Thorn.
visit of the jury to the cottage. He said
he was positive they must have seen that
it was impossible for one person to do
the cutting up of the body as it was
accomplished. The woman's knowledge
of anatomy which she was in possession
owing to experience in her profession,
stood her In good stead when she was
cutting up the corpse of her former lover,
Guldensuppe.
in conclusion Mr. Howe said that he
had the strongest belief that Thorn's in
terest would not suffer at the hands of