Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-08

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| tattoo marks which would have made iden-
| titication easy, but it Was evident they
| had been removed to prevent their serving
such a purpose. The reporter then hur-
| ried back TO Mrs. Nacks house. where he
| found her preparing TO move to another
| residence. The woman perfectly cool
| and answered all questions plausibly. but.
as WAS discovered almost Immediately,
| lied unhesitatinsiy. These lies have helped
! 10 weave network of damning evidence
| around her.
Story Given to the Police.
Other reporters kept watch on the house
| so that the midwife might he tracked
wherever she went and then the story WAS
given 10 the police, who were still ioun-
dcring in the dark. Mrs. Mack WAS Arrest
ed and her husband, from whom she WIS
| separated was captured while driving a
bread wagon. He. however, established MS
innocence sufficiently well to procure ms
discharge. BY this time II was learned
that Guldensuppe had rival for the al
fections of Mrs. Mack. in one Martin
Thorn. a barber. Both men had Huarreied
about the woman and had threatened each
others lives
Where was Thorn? He had disappeared
As completely as if the earth had opened
and swallowed him. 4 call for his arrest
was sent out by the police authorities and
for days the public waited anxiously for
his capture. 1t was believed that he mad
shipped for Germany and that he would
be taken into custody on his arrival there.
Meanwhile. the missing legs were found
close to the Eavy yard in Brooklyn. Tney
were tied up in oil cloth. paper and cheese
cloth similar to the wrappings of the
two bundles previously found. The bath
attendants made the identification more
hpv
limbs as those of Guldensuppe, on account
of his having overlapping toes. The limbs
fitted exactly to the lower part of the
trunk found in the woods and as 1t fitted
10 the upper portion of the body hrst
found. nothing was left to perfect the
identification but the head.
Martin ThOrn's UndOinE.
At last came the arrest of Thorn. The
man had never left the city. He had
merely shaved off his mustache and with
this simple disguise he rubbed clothes with
the officers who were looking for him.
Had he held his tongue he could probably
have continued to live in this city unmo-
Tested. Thorn, however liked his beer.
and was fond OF a confidant. His terrible
! secret was too much for him, and one day
he unburdened his mind to an old friend
and fellow barber, John Gotha. Gotha he
swore to secrecy, but the secret was too
much for the latter also. He would at
least tell his wife all he knew. Mrs. Go
tha once in possession of the dread story,
could not and would not rest until the
police had also heard it. Her brother was
a police officer and to him she told the
story of Thorn's admission. The detect
ives at once waited on GOtha and he con-
| irmed the tale told by his wife. The ar
! rest of Thorn followed. Gotha made an ap-
pointment to meet him at One Hundred
and Twenty-fifth street and Eighth ave
nue. although Thorn demurred at first and
expressed himself as anxious to meet Go
tina IN more lonely and unfrequented
place Gotha and his family believe now
that Thorn had then regretted having COM
mitted his secret to the keeping of his
friend and resolved to kill him. Gotha
induced Thorn to meet him at night on
the corner mentioned, and as soon as Go
tina walked toward him Thorn was sur
rounded by detectives and thus his arrest
was effected.
Thorn's Story to Gotha.
Thorn's story 10 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 closet in an upstairs room. When
Guldensuppe reached the house Mrs. Mack
told him to go upstairs and examine the
rooms while she went into the yard. Gull
densuppe hesitated, but finally went up
stairs and passed from room to room.
peering into the closets until he reached
the one I'm which Thorn was hidden. AS
soon the unsuspecting man opened the
door Thorn shot him in the head and then
dragged him to the bath tub. into which he
threw him. IL Gothas story be true, Thorn
acknowledged that, while Guldensuppe
YVES Vet alive. the barber drew knife or
razor and cut his throat. The division of
the body was next made, and two of the
| bundles were dropped overheard from
ferryboat In the East river. Another he
left in the woods having driven there in
company with Mrs. Mack. The head he
| encased in plaster of paris and sank it in
the East river. Mrs. Mack had helped
Thorn to make up the bundles and II was
she who purchased the wrapping material.
Confirmation of the story.
Gotha's statement has been proven to be
correct in many particulars save that as to
the disposition of the head. Thorn's rea-
sons for killing Guldensuppe were revenge
for his having once beaten him, and a
desire to be free to live with Mrs. Mack
Reporters discovered the woman who sold
Mrs. Mack the oil cloth and the man who
rented the Woodside house to herself and
Thorn, and these two positively identified
the prisoners. People In the neighborhood
of the cottage were found who had seen
what they considered 10 be bloody water
flowing from the dIain pipe of the cottage
on that Friday evening. The drain pipe
in question is the only outlet from the
bath tub in which Thorn is said 10 have
cut the murdered mans throat. In the
house itself blood stains We're detected and
bullets were found in the surbase and i'm
bedd.d in the walls.
Since his arrest Thorn, it is alleged has
made a confession. and the authorities in
Long Island City discovered the compro-
missing letter which he tried to swallow.
The letter showed an intention on the part
of both the man and woman to cheat the
law by committing suicide. While they
We're confined in the Tombs prison il was
impossible for them to communicate with
each other but since they were transferred
to the Queens county Jail they seemed to
have been able to exchange correspond
ence. District Attorney Olcott. of this
county. and District Attorney Youngs, of
Queens county. after due deliboration de-
cided that it was better to try the case
in Queens county. the murder is alleged
TO have been committed there. although
the plot WAS concoctcd in New York
Each BInmes the Other.
Thorn. II is said told a fellow prisoner
that he would have completed the job
as he termed it. beyond the possibility of
detection if Mrs. Mack had not been too
hurried about the disposition of the var
ious parts of the body. On the other hand.
her paramour. had told him that he talked
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