The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-11-27
THE WOMAN DID IT.
Martin Thorn Makes a State
ment Accusing Mrs. Mack
of the Murder.
SHOT GULDENSUppE IN THE BACK
He Also Says Gotha Swore Falsely
Against Him and Was Paid
by the District At
torney's Office.
SHOT GULDENSUPpE IN THE BACK

next and possibly Tuesday night. Thorn
will testify in his own behalf and accuse
Mrs. Mack of killing Guldensuppe.
| Another witness for the defense prob
ably will be Mrs. Zeiger of West Farms,
of whom 1t is alleged Mrs. Mack with
! Guldensuppe wanted TO hire house and
refused to rent it because it did not have
a sewer 1t is understood that after the
defense closes, Mrs. Mack may be called
| by the prosecution to repeat her confess
sion and thus offset the statement of
Thorn, when he charges Mrs. Mack with
the killing.
After Thorn's case is concluded it is
generally supposed that Mrs. Mack will
be allowed to plead guilty either to muir
der in tn esecond degree or manslaughter
in the first degree. This assumption is
based on the fac that on the occasion
that resulted in mis-trial of Thorn she
confessed her part and accused Thorn
of the crime.
A signed statement from Martin Thorn
is made public today. In part the state
ment follows:-
when I go on the stand Monday morn
ing l will tell the true and complete
| story of the crime for which am now
being tried for my life. My lawyer has
advised me to conceal nothing, and with
the help of God I will not Augusta
Mack planned and accomplished the
murder of William Guldensuppe. When
got to the Woodside cottage that Sat
urday morning she met me at the door and
said I have got Guldensuppe upstairs He
is dead She had shot him in the face
and stabbed him in the breast, she said.
I was not even in the house at the time,
but in the doorway, and she was out of
sight of the people on the street at the
time, half way to the stairway. l knew
nothing of her purpose that day She
had asked me to come to Woodside L
went there and when I arrived she told
me that she had killed Guldensuppe, and
| that all her trouble was over. For long
time 1 hardly knew what to do. Mrs
| Mack asked me to help her cut the body
UP. | hesitated, but could not make up
my mind.
I" You have got to help me get rid of
| it. she said or both of US win get into
| trouble. All you have got to do IS to
body to the bath tub. 1t was very heavy
Guldensuppe was dead. He was not
breathing when we put him in the. bath
tub. Mrs Mack did the cutting while 1
held the body.
First she cut the head off. then she
took the saw and sawed the trunk IN
the saw would go through the wrong
place in the body, but she finally got
the right place. She mentioned at the
time that it was a good thing she knew
something about surgery, or else 1t would
be impossible to get rid of the body prop
.Before she cut the body up the clothes
were taken off. Afterwards the BODY was az
lad IN, tba oil n1
bought at Mrs. Riger's. Then we talked
over the, plans to get rid OF the BODY, Sne ile
arranged for the. surrey drive an and the
throwing away of the pieces. She gave
the money to hire the surrey.
'.She gave me the money to hire the
Woodside cottage where she said she was
to start a place to treat women who were
in trouble and who wanted it kept quiet.
"She wanted to run baby farm, too,
so she could make lots of money. After
we threw the head in the river and dis
posed of pieces of the body, as the papers
have stated, she took Guldensuppe's S
clothes and burned them in a stove. 1t
was nothing but my love for Mrs. Mack
that got me into all this trouble. l help
ed her get rid of the dead body to shield
her and to save her from being arrested.
Everybody has lied about me in this case,
principally because have not talked or
sfThey say told Gotha that I killed
Guldensuppe. 1t is a lie. told him that
he he was my friend. and my only friend
the only in the world | could go. to and
talk to. He betrayed me and swore
falsely against me i don't sn knoW what What
fesses that he got 5000 or $500 from the
District Attorney on the stand. .
They say offered to confess to cap
tain O'Brien so 1 could get free. That Is
another lie.
private nature that did not concern the
did tell. 1t was that man Friend that
made people believe that ! tried to be-
tray Mrs. Mack.
Captain O,Brien knows what | told
him. l give him permission to speak
They say. too, that / threatened to
murder Guldensuppe. Yes. did say L
would kill him before l would let MN
kill me.
"He almost murdered me once, and
threatened my life every time he men
toned my name to Mrs, Mack
Augusta told me so, and told me to
look and have a pistol to shoot him;
but not to do it in her house. She would
get into trouble, she said
Il thought she told me that because
she loved me- l now know she feared
Guldensuppe and wanted to have me kill
him, so she would not suffer.
Mrs. Mack told the jury that I com
mitted the murder in Just the way she
actually did it herself. She turned every
thing around. She reversed the whole
story, accusing me of just what she did.
She IS aIfdld 10 go OH IHe Stduu. fier
lawyers will not let her go and testify
against me, because they know l can
prove her a liar-can prove that she her.
self killed Guldensuppe, because he knew
of other crimes she had committed, and
because she was afraid that Guldensurpe
would kill her for having had anything to
do with me.
II can ask that woman questions that
she canot answer without showing con-
clusiyely that she has sworn to lies, and,
what is more, I have witnesses to cor
roborate me-
ssThis statement can do me no harm
now The jurymen will never see 1T.
.It canot influence them, but it may
help the public to understand that I could
not kill an unarmed man by shooting
II want to say that believe that I
will be acquitted 1t cannot be that a
guilty woman can end an innocent man
~My lawyer, Mr.. Howe, is the best
friend I have on earth. He knows that
/ did not murder the bath-rubber.
II have no fear for the result while he
is defending me- and | have chance to
make my statement before the jury
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