The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-28
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'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 upstairs. / knew
nothing of her purpose that day. She
had asked me to come to Woodside. I
went here and when l arrived she told
me she had killed Guldensuppe and
that all her trouble was over,
For long time / hardly knew what
to do. Mrs. Mack asked me to help cut
the body up. 1 hesitated, but could not
make up my mind.
You have got to help me get rid
of it, she said or both of us will get
into trouble. All you have got to do
is to help. At last 1 helped her carry
the body to the bath tub. 1t was very
heavy. Guldensuppe was dead. He was
not breathing when 1 put him into the
bath tub. Mrs. Mack did the cutting
while 1 held the body. First she cut
the head off; then she took a saw and
sawed the trunk in two, and then the
legs. She was afraid the saw would so
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 it would be impossible
to get rid Of the body properly. Before
she cut the body up, the clothes were
taken off. Afterwards the body was
rolled up in the oil cloth bought at
Mrs. Rights. Then we talked over the
plans to get rid of the body. She ar
ranged for the surrey drive and the
throwing away of the pieces. She gave
me the money to hire the surrey.
''She gave the money to hire the
Woodside cottage, where she said she
who were in trouble and who wanted it
kept quiet.
after we threw the head into the
river and disposed of pieces of the
body as the papers have stated, she
took Guldensuppes upper clothes and
burned them in a stove.
LOVE IMPLIED THORN.
at was nothing but my love for Mrs
Mack that got me into all this trouble.
1 helped her to get rid of the dead body
to shield her and save her from being
arrested.
Everybody has lied about me in this
! case, principally because 1 have not
talked or explained.
"They said I told Gotha that 1 killed
Guldensuppe 1t is a lie. 1 told him
that Mrs. Mack killed him. They say
offered to confess to Captain O'Brien
so 1 could get free. That is another
lie.
81 told Captain O'Brien something of
a private nature that did not concern
the case intimately. give him permits
sion to speak now. He will clear me-
''They say too, that 1 threatened to
murder William Guldensuppe. Yes, l
said l would kill him before he killed
me. He almost killed me and threat
ened my life every time he mentioned
my name to Mrs. Mack. Augusta told
me so and told me to look out and have
a pistol to shoot him, but not to do it
in her house. she would get into
trouble, she said. 1 thought she told
me that because she loved me. I now
know she feared Guldensuppe and
wanted to have me kill him so she
would not suffer.
THE STORY REVERSED.
Mrs. Mack told the jury that com
mitted the murder in just the way she
actually did it herself. She turned
| everything around. She reversed the
whole story, accusing me of just what
she did.
'She is afraid to go on the stand.
Her lawyers will not let her go on and
testify against me, because they know
that I can prove her a liar-can prove
that she herself killed Guldensuppe be-
cause he knew of other crimes she had
committed and because she was afraid
Guldensuppe would kill her for having
had anything to do with me.
81 can ask that woman questions that
she cannot answer without showing
conclusively that she had sworn to lies
and 1 have witnesses to corrobOrate
me. MARTIN THORN"