The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1897-11-15
Thorne'S Accomplish Goes on the Stand
in Court,
THE BARBER USED A PISTOL
Woman Describes How the Dead Man
Was Lured to the Cottage.
KER STORY one OF GREAT INTEREST
Juror Larsen Stricken With Appendi-
citis and New Jury Will Have
To Be Impaneled.

New York, November lO-There was an
extraordinary turn of affairs today in the
Thorne murder trial at Long Island City.
Mrs. Augusta Mack who was indicted
together with her erstwh;le paramount, Mar
TN Ihorne, for the murder of her former
lover. W llllam GuldenSuppe, for whom she
deserted her legal husband, appeared in
the role of a states witness against Thorne,
to the CONSERVATION of the latter's law
yers.
For several weeks rumors have been cur
rent that both Thornc and Mrs Mack were
striving 20 gain remsS on of :" probable
capital sentence by giving sufficient nfor-
NATION to the representatives. of the people
for the convict on of the other Despite
these rumorS, the legal representa- of
the man and woman have strenuousiy de
MED that either Of the prisoners was in
clined to turn informer.
Thoruc was not told Of the confession
until brought into court this morning,
When he heard of il he showed evidences
OF NERVOUSNESS for the first time since his
arrest.
He soon roganed his composurc, how
ever. and while he leaned forward and
spoke to his lawyer, Mrs. Mack entered
the courtroom accompanied by her lawyer
ard u deputy sheriff. The woman passed
close to Thorne on her way to the district
attorneys table. But while he carefully
kept track of her every movement. she
ded looking at him.
For two hours and forty minutes Mrs.
Mack remained on the witness stand the
cynosure of all eyes, while she told the
terrible story of how she lured Gudensuppe
to his death, and in telling the tale she
knew full well she was bringing her para
nour to the electric chair Frequently
the eyes met, but the woman was nos
equal to the occasion and she always hal
20 turn away from Tkornes stcadfast gaze.
When asked why she had confessed she
,,IE, ..t,.
science and then bur& into tears But
when Lawyer Howe began his cross-cxam-
NATION he handled her unsparngIy and
made her own UP to such acts of premcdi-
tation that the majority of those who heard
her adm ssions said that she was thu, great
est cuprit. and many of those who had
previously evinced n decided antipatbv TO
Thorne swerved around and ptied him
Mrs. Mack told of her relations with
Guldensuppc. They lived together at 429
Ninth avenue ana here the murdered man
was known as her husband. She descr,b ID
Thornes coming there to beard and of HIS
fight with Guldensuppa
The witness told Of ThOrnr's threats to
kill Guldcnsuppe and detailed the renting
of the WCcdside house
Gradually the lawyer led the witness M
10 the morning Of Ftilay june 23th tba
Gay tlat the crime was committed She
said she ana Guldeasrnpe Icrs New Yotl,
p'NNCtI4 . anu ~ q CLOCK Lldt morning. ami
after they had crossed the ferry boarded
trolley ear, which left them at the Wood
side cottage
Il had the key Of the house" she said.
land l ooened the front door. told Gull
densuppe to enter and examine the house
while / want into the yard. He went up
stairs and l heard shot. Martin Thorne
then came running down, and when he
met me he said:
q I'VE shot him. he is dead
He was very excited and I half
dead" said the self-conftssed murderess.
breathles3ly.
What did you DO them" asked Judge
Weller.
He asked me TO go home and come
back at o'clock. When l came back that
evening Thorne had everything packed in
bundles, He handed me bundle which ne
said contained Gudensuppe's clothes, and
he took another bundle which was wrap
ped up in a gray-coiored paper. He said
that 1t Guldensuppe's head and that
it done up in plaster Of paris He
took the trolley car and went over to New
York on a ferry boat.
In relating what had been done with the
various parts of Guldcnsuppe's corpse, Mrs.
Mack said that when she went back to the
cottage at ) o'clock Thorne had everything
tied up in parcels, some of them in the
oil cloth that she had purchased in Long
Island CITY. When they We're ready 70
leave the cottage she took one parcel and
Thorne another. Hers contained Gulden-
stppe's clothing and in Thornes parcel
was the dead mans head, which he had
incased In plaster paris In the Washtub or
the cottage. They went directly to ferry
which one she did not know-and she
went TO the front of the boat and Thorne
etaid on the rear.
soon after the boat was In mld-Siream
and said that he ilHt