The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-27
ADAM" THORN
The Man Accused of Numbering
William Guldensuppe
Like the Father of the Race
Accuses Eve.
SAYS TWAS MRS. MACK
Who Killed the Man and Cut
Him Up.
Because of His Great Love for
Her He Helped.
THE ACCUSED'S STORY
AS He Will Tell it on the Stand
Monday
Is Given to the Public Through
the Press Today.
Who Killed the Man and Cut
Him Up.
Because of His Great Love for
Her He Helped.
THE ACCUSED'S STORY
As He Will Tell it on the Stand
Monday
Is Given to the Public ThrOug b
the Press Today.

New York, Nov. 27-The following
statement signed by Martin Thorn IS
published in an evening paper today:
When go to the stand Monday
morning, I viii tell the true and COM
plete story of the crime for which 1 am
now being tried fer my life. Ny law
yer had advised me to conceal nothing
and with the help of God, L viii not.
Martin Thorn is just a man with vi
ces and virtues like any other and with
the love of life just as strong within
him as in any of those who say he
sinned because he loved an unworthy
woman; loved and trusted and shielded
her until ne was in the very shadow of
the electric chair; loved her until she
swore away his existence to save her
own. to save herself from the cOnse-
quences of her own act-the killing of
the man whom she said she feared be
cause of his knowledge of other crimes
Augusta Mack planned and accomp-
lished the murder of William Gulden-
suppe.
When got to the Woodside cottage
that Saturday morning she met me at
the door and said: I have got Gulden-
Suppe up stairs He is dead
she had shot him in the face and
stabbed him in the breast, she said l
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 up stairs. L knew moth
ing of her purpose that day. She had
asked me to come to WOOdside. 1 Went
there and when L arrived she told me
that she had Killed Culdensuppe and
that all her trouble was over
For long tiIne 1 hardly knew what
to do Mrs. Nacls asked me to help her
cut the body up, 9ut 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 L Helped her to carry
the body to the be tn tub. It was very
heavy. Guldensuope was dead. He
was not breathing when we put him in
the bath tub. Mrs Mack did the cut
ting while I held the body.
First she cut the head off, then she
took the saw and sawed the trunk in
afraid the saw would go through the
wrong place in the body but she finally
got the right place. She mentioned at
the time that II was a good thing that
she knew something about surgery or
else il would be impossible to get rid
OF the body properly. Before she cut
the body up, the clothes We're taken
off. Afterward the body was rolled up
in the oil cloth bought at Mrs. Riger's.
Then we talked over the plans to get
rid of the body We arranged for the
surrey driver and the throwing away
of the pieces. She gave me the money
TO hire the surrey.
After we threw the head into the
river ana disposed OF pieces of the
body, as the papers have stated. she
TOOK Guldensuppe' clothes and burned
them in stove.
1t was nothing but my love for Mrs
Mack that got me into all this trouble
] helped her get rid OF the dead body
TO shield her and to save her from be
ing arrested.
Everybody has lied about me in this
case. principally because have not
talked, or explained.
They said told Gotha that I killed
GuIdensuppe- 1t is a lie. 1 told him
that Mrs Mack killed him. They say
1 offered to confess to Captain O'Brfen
so that could get free. I told Captain
O'Brien something of private nature
that did not concern the case intimate
~ 1 give him permission to speak
now. He viii clear me
They say. too, that I threatened to
murder VIM Guldensuppe. Yes 1 said
/ would kill him before he killed me
he almost killed me and threatened my
life every time he mentioned nv name
TO Mrs. Mack Augusta told me 50
and told me to look and have pistol
to shoot him, but not to do it in her
house"
Mrs. Mack told the jury that com
mitted the murder in just the way she
actually did it herself. She turned ev-
erything 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
90 on and testify against me, because
they know that I can prove her a liar
can prove that she herself killed Gull
denSuppe because he knew of other
crimes she had committed and because
she was afraid that tGuldeusuppe would
Kill her for having had anything TO do
with me.
Il can ask that woman questions
that she cannot answer without show
ing conclusively that she has sworn to
lies. and. what is more. l have Wit
nesses to corroborate me-