The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-12
RAPID PROGRESS
IN TRIAL OF THE THORN Gull
DENSUPPE MURDER TRIAL

The Opening Address Tor the
Witnesses Examined for the Prosecution.
Ths Chief Testimony To-day TO b That Of
an Anatomical Expert On Identfneation
Of the Disembered ~Body-Ths D~sfenses
First Objection Overruled
New York, November 9.-Punctuality
seems to be- the watchword OF every
one concerned in the trial OF Martin
Thorn for the alleged murder of Will
liam G~uldensuppe. which began yester-
day morning in the Queens county
court house.
Promptly at 10 O'Clock this morning
District Attorney William J.. Youngs,
! his assistants and the lawyers for the
defense were in their places. and the
| prosecutor began his opening address.
Martin Thorn handcuffed to Captain
| Melvin, and escorted by a constable,
was brought into court a few minutes
before the district attorney began
speaking. Thorn was dressed as on
yesterday with his face cleanly shaven
and hair parted in the middle and care
fully brushed back from his forehead.
Twenty witnessed We're summoned for
examination today n the district at
torney took them one by one just as the
finding Of the different portions of the
body opened up to the public the fact
that a terrible crime a. been commit
ted. The first witnesses were the boys
who, while swimming in the East river,
had found the upper portion of the sew
cred trunk, and then followed the pO-
licemen who were called to the scene
Of the finding and they in u were
followed by witnesses who testified to
the bringing Of that part of the body
to the morgue. The discovery Of the
lower part Of the trunk from which
the legs were severed half way between
the hips and knees was then taken up,
and every person who handled it until
it was deposited with the morgue keep
err was examined and each one in turn
identified the paper, Oil cloth and
cheese cloth in which the part was
wrapped.
The rest Of the afternoon was taken
up by the description of those who dis
covered and inspected the bundle found
floating at the Brooklyn navy yard
and as in the other two instances the
carrying of these limbs was followed
from the navy yard cob dock to the
New York mOrgue at Bellevue hospital.
Then the mOrgue keeper was put on the
stand and testified to the accuracy of
several photographs which he said
were true representations of the pOr-
tons Of the body which are now in
glass jars preserved for identification
in the morgue
Lawyer Howe made several Objec-
lions to the photographs being admit
ted as evidence as the parts were still
in the mOrgue keepers possession and
insisted that they hould be produced
in court. Judge Smith o~ver-ruled Mr..
HOwe's objections.
At 4 o'clock all the witnesses who had
been m to court for eXamina-
ton had given their testimony, and as
there were no more available the pros
ecution asked an adjournment until to-
morrow morning. The court granted
the request.
1t is expected that the greater part
Of the testimony tomorrow will be that
of an anatomical expert who will be
produced by the people to prove that
the parts belonged to the same body
and also, if possible to prove the cause
Of DEATH. The district attorney believes
that he can prove these things to the
satisfaction of the jury, after which
he intends to convince the court and
jurors that the headless body which
was so savagely dismembered is none
other than that of the missing bath
rubber, William Guldensuppe.