Evening journal., 1897-11-17
RED AND RUSTY SAW
Corroboration Found of Mrs.
Nack's Confession.
THORN MAY HAVE ONCE USED IT.
Bedge Cutter on Long Island Meadows
Unwittinely Chances Upon What May
Prove AN Important If Silent wit
ness Against the Barber.

NEW YORK. Nov ia man cutting
the long sedge on the meadows lining
the road which runs between Flushing
and College Point yesterday found a
handsaw half buried I'm the semimarsh.
The saw was stained red and the upper
part was rusted, as If It had lain in the
grass for many weeks. After reporting
his find TO his master, the man set out
for the Queens county courthouse to re-
port and turn the saw over to the dis
trict attorney.
The lawyers engaged in the prosecu-
tion Of the case against Martin Thorn
believe that in this saw they have the
instrument with which they claim
Thorn severed Guldensuppe's head from
the body. The only identification Will
be that by Mrs. Mack.
The find was made by a man named
Rosenberg He is employed by thrill
" native named Sullivan. who cuts the
long meadow grass and uses II for
packing goods. The saw is about eight
inches long. much like that used by
| butchers in cutting bones 1t lay a
/ short distance from the road, as If 1t
had been tossed there by a passerby.
Mrs. Nacks confession in regard to
the disposition Of the saw is as fol-
lows:
1--WE rode over the long bridge where
only the cars go and then walked on
the high stone fence beside the car
tracks. This was two days after the
murder. We walked along the College
| Point causeway on the stone coping
that separates the roadway from the
car track When we got near the small
hut at what / now know is the foot OF
i Lawrence street and which is near the
Halfway House hotel Thorn jumped
down from the coping and went to the
meadow about 100 feet away.
"He pushed the saw into a pool OF
water and said. I guess the niggers are
too far away to see us There were
colored people In the small huts. Ther
we walked to the end Of the coping al
STATIONS hill. After that we took q
car back to Flushing, and then we wen
back to the Woodside cottage"
Captain Methven of Long Island Cit,
thinks the head of Guldensuppe maj
have been disposed of in the sam
neighborhood as the saw was found, ant
a search viii be made for It.
The district attorney has returned
from Philadelphia. He searched tn
court of quarter sessions records ther
OF any man answering the description
of Thorn as having served time Il
Moyamensing prison.
The supposition is that a practice
, joker conceived the idea of representa-
himself TO be prison keeper and thu
getting in to see Thorn, and carried on
his joke by telling the tale of once haV
ing Thorn under his care in Philade
phia.
AS sort Of reward for excellent be
havior Thorn Is now allowed to read III
daily papers. He wades through stac
of them each day 1t is his first oecl
patton after breakfast.
His keepers say that he reads ever
scrap about his own case and that II
, reports that Mrs. Mack had been III
successful in her trip with the prise
authorities TO Woodside had great
elated him.
Thorn, when he goes on the stan
will swear that the instruments four
70 in the Ninth avenue house at the tin
a of Mrs. Nacks arrest were the on
e used by her in cutting up the body
Guldensuppe. Both Mrs. Mack al
Thorn seem at ease and comfOrtab
now