The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-25
BONE IN a GLASS JAR
PART or ONE or GULDENsUPPE's
THIGHS EXHIBITED IN COURT.
Evidence That Martin ThOrn's and
Mrs. NacIx's Victim Was Killed by
a Stab in the Heart.

the courtroom We're mostly occupied by
women, for whom the trial possesses an ex-
traordinary attraction. A fortnight ago Mrs.
Mack created a sensation by going on the
stand and accusing Thorn of having killed
her former lover. Guldensuppe. Since that
time the defense has changed its base, and
as Mr.. Howe said in court to-day, the de-
fendant's lawyers will now endeavor to prove
through Thorn, as the principal witness.
that Mrs. Mack herself committed the crime.
The early part OF to-day's proceedings was
entirely taken up with evidence to prove the
corpus deficit. Coroner Tuthill, during his
examination, stated that the cause of death
was stab wound between the fifth and
sixth ribs, which penetrated the heart.
Later iii the day the prosecuting attorney.
through a fellow-barber of Thorn, connected
him with the possession of a stietto, the
blade of which was over six inches in
length. The district attorney tried very
hard to get this witness to testify that
Thorn had spoken of his relations with Mrs.
Mack and Guldensuppe, but Lawyer Howe
was equal to the occasion, and the court
invariably sustained objections.
Some of the witnesses examined to-day
reside in Woodside, and they told of the
visits of gaily dressed woman who APP
peared in the vicinity of the cottage with
the alleged murder June Is. They had also
seen a man wearing dark blue clothes about
the house and on the day in question he
was seen by one witness to go in and out
of the house frequently Three of them
identified Thorn as the man in dark clothes
and two of them identified photographs of
Guldensuppe as being representations of the
man who had worn the light suit. None
of them, however, had seen any traces of
the latter after he had entered the cottage
on that Friday morning.
Lawyer Howe requested the court to have
Mrs; Mack, produced, in order that she
might be identified by the witnesses. This
request brought about q legal argument,
and finally Mr.. Howe was compelled TO
swear out writ compelling the sheriff to
produce her. Mrs. Mack was brought into
court after the midday recess, looking much
paler than when she appeared two weeks
ago in the same court.
The morbid curiosity of the majority of
the spectators was gratifed in the afternoon
session by the producing in court of a piece
of the bone of one of Guldensuppe's thighs,
to which was attached some shreds of flesh.
This chastity exhibit was sealed in glass
jar. DIR. OHanlan explained that he cut
this portion off to show how infinitely 1t
fitted into the corresponding piece of the
bone which protruded from the stump OF
the lower part of the trunk.
Police C2p plain Stephen O'Brien, formerly
in charge of the New York detective bureau,
was on the stand for considerable por-
ton of the afternoon and told great deal
the prisoner was being put through what is
known among criminals as the third de-
gree" Thorn at that time had denied all
knowledge of the killing of Guldensuppe.
Capt. O'Brien said that when he was ques-
tioning Mrs. Mack when she was arrested,
four days after the murder was alleged to
have been committed, she said: "Guldensuppe
did not treat me right. love Thorn and
Would Nd die for him. nd was sa at r ins nn%
we will show that Mrs. Mack committed the
murder, and what she said to the captain
will bear us out. The adjournment or
court was until Friday.
Two to Hang for Killing a Miser.
e~POLLIDAYSBURG, Pa, Nov. A.-Frank
Wilson, of Massillon, o., and James Farrell,
of Allequippa, Allegheny county, were to-
day sentenced in the Blair county courts
to be hanged. A motion for a new trial was
oyerrued by Judge Bell. The prisoners had
been convicted of the murder of Henry Bon
necka, an aged miser of Altoona, on April
Z, 1885. The crime was committed in the
miser's house at midnight while they were
seeking his wealth. The evidence against
them was of circumstantial character. De-
tectives testified that Wilson and Farrell
had confessed their crime to them in ray
lor's Hotel New York. The case was made
remarkable after the trial and CONVICTION or
Wilson and Farrell by information that
Henry Hildebrand, convict in the penl-
tentiary at Baltimore had confessed that
Bonnecka. Hildebrand took his own life
after making this confession. In denying
the motion for a new trial Judge Bell
likened it to theacase of Durrant, the San
Francisco murderer as an Illustration of
the propensity of crooks to assume to them
selves the commission or notorious crimes;
William Doran, who was with Wilson and
Farrell in the murder, fed from the coun-
try, and has not yet been captured.
"Pudd'nhead Wilson'S, Test Used.
DAVENPORT, Ia, Nov. 24.-The defense
yesterday in the trial of Mrs. Christine
Behrens for the murder of her husband in
troduced expert evidence for the purpose of
identifying thumb print on one of the al
legged suicide letters of the dead man. Dr.
p. Radenhausen, a teacher in the Daven-
port High School, testified that the thumb
print was identical with the lines on the
thumb of Claus Behrens, he having COM
pared them when Behrenss body was ex-
humed two months after his. death. Prof.
A A. Veblen, teacher of physics at the
Iowa State University and a student of
thumb prints, gave qualified confederation
OF DR.. Radenhausens testimony
Convicted of Criminal Assault.
CINCINNATI, o., Nov. 24-Frank, alias
dad Meiner, was tonight convicted at
Newport, KY, of criminally assaulting Mrs.
William Gleason, Oct. s. and sentenced to
twenty years in the penitentiary. Claxson
and Greer have previously received l., the
are five others to be tried for this offense
and al will no doubt receive twenty years
each, The defendants belonged to a gang
that insulted ladies, and their outrage on
Mrs. Gleason was such that lynching was
averted only by the transfer of the prison
ers to Maysville.
BInnfher's Alleged Confession.
HOUSTON, Tex. Nov. 24.-The attorneys
for Durrant, the California murderer. have
not yet made any effort to have the confess
sion of convict Blanther unearthed at Nor
gan, confirmed by private inquiry. The at
torneys are still comparing the note con-
Tossing the murder of Minnie Williams and
Blanche Lamont with specimens of Blanth-
er's writing to be found in Bosque county
and claim that there are many reasons for
believing it genuine and not forgery.
Crazy Man Wandering over Desert.
LOS ANGELES. Cal. Nov 24-A r.
Roberts. passenger on the west-bound
Santa Fe overland. bound for San Fran
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