The herald., 1897-11-08
HE TALKED TOO MUCH
AND HIS ARREST FOR MURDER
FOLLOWED
Trial of Martin Thorn and Mrs. Mack
for Killing Guldensuppe Be
gins Today

NEW YORK, Nov. IA murder as
shocking in the fiendish details of it's
execution as ever took place within the
confines Of a great city, was presumably
committed on Friday, June 25th,, in
onely cottage at Woodside, L. 1. Will
liam Guldensuppe, q Turkish bath at
endant was the victim and Martin
Thorn, a barber. and Augusta Hack a
midwife, stand accused of being his
nlurderers. Today their trial will begin
u Long Island City before Judge Mad
doX.
The story of the crime bristles with
details of the degeneracy of human be-
ngs. No murder was ever more care
fully planned. nor did murderers ever
take pains to cover up their tracks by
affectually disposing of the remains of
their victim. Yet within twentyfour
hours it was known to the world that a
murder had been committed and the
pursuit of the butchers had been begun.
Two of those youths of the lower East
Side of New York, who spend their sum-
mer days in the East river or on the
stringpieces of the piers, We're the ac-
-idental discovererS of the horrible
crime. The boys We're John Mcclure
and James Mckenna. They were pre-
pairing for their afternoon dip June
9th at the foot of East Eleventh street.
when the sight of rather strange look
ing bundle floating with the tide has
tened their movements. In a moment
they We're in the water and toying the
bundle in shore. Once back on the dock
the boys lost no time in cutting the stout
cord which was wound around their
prize and undoing the roll of oil cloth
which formed the outer covering. But
they had not yet reached the contents
Of the bundle. There We're still over
coverings of heavy brown paper and
cheese cloth. When these had been re-
moved there was a yell of terror. There
on the pier lay the mutilated trunk Of a
man with the arms folded across the
breast.
1t was the upper portion of the body
from the hips to the throat. The arms
had been allowed to remain. From the
breast a slice of the skin had been re-
moved and over the spot the unfortu-
nate mans arms had been placed as if
to conceal it,
Another discovery was made on Sun
day morning, June 27th. A man and
two boys. while picking berries in Og-
den woods, in the far northern part of
the city. many miles from East Eleventh
street, found bundle which was sim
liar to that picked up the day before in
the East river. In oil cloth, brown pa
per and cheese cloth was wrapped the
lower half of mans trunk. II was the
half missing from the East river ind.
nd s.t;1I s-t
thus seemingly rendering it impossible
to establish the dead mans identity.
The head is still missing, but the body
has been identified and the mystery I'm
raveled, thanks to the keen work of New
York newspaper reporters. 1t was
learned at the Murray Hill Turkish
bath house that one of the attendants,
William Guldcnsuppe, had not been
seen for a couple of days. 1t was also
discovered that woman named Mrs.
Augusta Mack had abandoned her hus-
band for Guldensuppe, and that Gul-
densuppe had rival for the affections
of Mrs Mack in one Martin Thorn, a
barber. The men had quarreled about
the woman. and had threatened each
others lives.
Meanwhile the missing legs We're
found close to the navy yard in Brook
lyn. AT last came the arrest Of Thorn
and Mrs. Mack. who were charged with
the crime. Had he held his tongue he
could have continued to live in his city
unmolested, bus his terrible secret WAS
too much for him. so one day he unbur-
dened his mind TO an old friend and fell
low barber John Gotha. Gotila told
his wife, and she would not rest until
the police had also heard it, The ar
rest of Thorn followed. Since his ar
rest, Thorn, it is alleged, has made
flc,ctDl,