The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-11-11
The TRIAL BEGINS TODAY
THU GULDENsUPPE MURDER CASI
OPENS TODAY IN LONG
ISLAND CITY.
DETAILS OF The F|END|SH CRIME
Mrs. Mack and Martin Ihorh
Charged with the Murder-Body
Was Cut in TwO-FOund Sew
eral Miles Away.

New York, Nov. IA murder al
shocking in the tiendish details of its
execution as ever took place within the
confines of great city was presumably
committed on Friday, June %, in {
lonely cottage at Woodside, L. l. viii
liam Guldensuppe, Turkish bath at
tendant, was the victim and Martin
Thorn, n barber, and Augusta Mack, {
midwife, stand accused of being his muir
derers. Tody their trial will begin il
Long Island City before Judge Maddox
On June % bundle was found float
ing at the foot of East Eleventh street
which was found to contain the mutilated
trunk of IL man, with the arms folded
across the chest. 1t was the upper por-
ton of body, from the hips to the
throat. The arms had been allowed to
remain, but the cutting of the neck and
trunk had been carefully done.
Death, according to the coroner's jury,
! had resulted from stab wound inflicted
with long, keen knife, which had pene-
trated the heart. The knife also had
been driven through the left shoulder
into the lung.
On Sunday morning, July 81. bundle
which was similar to that picked up the
day before in East river was found. As
before, the wrapping was of oil cloth,
brown paper and cheese cloth, and con-
tanned the lower half of a mans body.
1t was the half missing from the East
river remains.
A reporter discovered that there was a
woman named Mrs. Augusta Mack who
had abandoned her husband for Gulden.
suppe. Here was n clue. Might not
the husband have had hand in the
bloody work?
Mrs. Mack admitted she knew Gulden.
suppe, but had not seen him for several
days. She was perfectly cool, but some.
thing aroused the suspicious of her in
terrogator. The attendants at the bath
house where Guldensuppe had worked
for years had no difficulty in identifying
the trunk and arms as those of Gulden-
suppe. Mrs. Mack and her husband
were arrested. He, however, estab-
lished his innocence sufficiently well to
procure his discharge. 1t was then
learned that Guldensuppe had rival for
the affections of Mrs. Mack in one Mar
quarreled about the woman and had
threatened each others lives. Thorn
was missing. Meanwhile the missing
legs were found close to the navy yard
in Brooklyn, tied in similar wrappings to
those of the former bundles.
At last came the arrest of Thorn
through fellow barber named John
Gotha, to whom Thorn had confessed
the crime. Thorn's story to Gotha was
to the effect that Guldensuppe had been
brought by Mrs. Mack to her cottage in
Woodside, l.. l., which she had rented
for the purpose of starting a baby farm,
and that he CThorn) lay in wait for the
bath rubber in Il closet in an upstairs
room. Mrs. Mack induced Guldcnsuppe
to inspect the house, and when the I'M
suspecting man reached the closet in
which Thorn was concealed the latter
shot Guldensuppe through the head and
dragged him to bath tub, where the
body was cut into pieces and disposed of,
two bundles being dropped into East
river, one left in tie woods and the head
later being incased in plaster of paris
and sunk in the East river.