The herald., 1897-07-01
COPS
Solve New York's Murder
Mystery
THE BUTCHERS BLOODY WORK
PROVES FUTILE TO CON CEAL THE
CRIME
THE BUTCHERS BLOODY WORK
Though the Man Was Hacked tt
Pieces, a Cut Finger Reveals
His Identity
Associated Press Special Wire.

whose severed body lies in the morgue.
He was William Guldensuppe, rubber
in the Murray Hill Turkish baths.
A woman who once loved this man
hated him. Two men were jealous of
him and had threatened him with re-
venge. The positive and indubitable
Identification is made by the superinten-
dent of the baths and five attendants,
who had seen the man naked day after
day for years and knew every mark on
him. He was further identified by DR..
j. S. Cosby of N. 215 Forty-fourth
street DR.. Cosby had lanced and treat
ed felon on the index finger of.Gulden-
suppe's left hand. At the morgue DR..
Cosby instantly identified the cicatrice
of the wound that his lancet had made.
| Guldensuppe had been a sailor. On
his breast was tattooed in India ink the
figure of a woman. 1t covered a space
as large as a mans hand. The butcher
who cut him up, cut this out. Gulden-
suppe left the baths Friday morning.
He disappeared. In all the four years of
his employment there he had never
missed a days work. No word has been
received from him.
Guldensuppe lived with Mrs. Augusta
Mack, midwife, at SO Fifth avenue. She
is separated from her husband. Mack
threatened Guldensuppe.
A man who lived with the Nacks be-
I fore Guldensuppe came. and who Is
Nack's friend, and openly threatened
Guldensuppe. The big masseur had sup
planted him and thrashed him after TAX
ing away his pistol. Mrs. Mack says
she does not know and does not care
where Guldensuppe is; that she has not
seen him since Friday morning, the day
before the body was found in East river.
The night before she had seen him take
another woman's cardl Then this man
and Mrs. Mack quarreled. He made
her give him IS and went away. At l
o'clock on Tuesday morning the Journal
and Advertiser reporter went to Mrs.
Nacks house. The rooms were in per-
feet order as if she intended to live
there the rest Of her life. Seven hours
later the woman had seen her land
lord and given up the fiat. She had en-
ployed four men, who were at work dis
mantling the rooms. She said her
mother was Ill and she was going to Eu-
rope
| Mrs, Mack vehemently told and re-
peated to detectives who visited her at
two o'clock this morning that Gulden-
suppe was at Mrs. Cunningham house
at No. 21 Bedford street. She declared,
| too, that Mrs Cunningham had been to
her fiat for his clothes. But Gulden-
suppe was not at Mrs. Cunningham S
house. Mrs Cunningham had not gone
or sent for his clothes.
Besides, Mrs. Mack, when she visited
the bath house, told the Superin tendent
Guldensuppe would send for his trunk
tomorrow (Thursday).
| A little questioning brought forth the
| fact that she (Mrs. Nack) and Gulden-
suppe had quarreled and separated. She
| Is said to have remarked angrily: "Oh,
I suppose he wants to go with that other
woman of his"
| There was another woman who lives
in the upper part Of the city to whom
Guldensuppe used to send money and
presents. The people at the bath house.
although they had not then seen the
body, thought that GuldenSuppe was the
victim of that mysterious murder and
they thought it strange that after he and
the woman had quarreled and parted in
anger he should telegraph to her to come
to the bath house and make his excuses.
Moreover, she did not show the Telegram
which she said he had sent her.
The midwife is thought to be a Dane.
She speaks a very peculiar dialect of
German. She is very picture of femi-
/ nine strength and health. When the
reporter replied that he wanted to know
where William was, she said: "Well, I
yyh hp. ic
anything of him since Friday morning.
When he came home from the bath
house that morning it was very early.
But before he went he made me give
him S. had drawn out of the bank"
what bank?"
Mrs. Mack would not say. She would
not show the bank book.
What did he say before he went
away?"
"a good many things. Among others
we spoke about the money, and I asked
him what he wanted it for He told me
it was none of my business"
''Did he say where he was going?"
mo"
HAS it occurred to you that he may
have bank account?"
mo"
HAS it occurred to you that he might
have been killed."
"Oh, don't say that" the woman an
swered. "You scare me-
IT don't care for him, anyway" she
said after a pause. Anyhow" she con-
tinued, II know he has not been killed,
for 1 saw him Sunday"
'Saw him whereof
WELL" she said haltingly, II did not
exactly see him, but I heard from him.
"How was that?"
"Well, we usually take lunch togeth-
er on his day off at Bucks restaurant
| on Sixth avenue, near Forty-second
street, and I did not know but that he
might come there Saturday. So went
up there and waited some time. He did
not come, but bye and bye boy brought
a note for me which said to come home
at once"
"And you went?"
eyes, 1 went home, but he was not
there. But he had been there after /
went out"
"How do you knew"
because 1 found a different collar
on the bureau. He had been there and
changed his collar"
All questioning about the other board
Ter, the man with whom Guldensuppe