Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-11-28
SAB ALSO CUT The BODY UP.
Re Only Helped Her in The Horrible
Work at WOOdSide.
CASE MAY co TO JURY TUESDAY.
u,orn VIII Testify I'm His own De-
half. and Mrs. Mack VIII he Called
% Rcpent Her conference.-the
Nyoman'S Probable Fate.

to-day:
when I so on the stand Monday
,,orn.ng I will tell the true and COM
rle,e story Of the crime for which
~, now being tried for my life. My
,.vver has advised me to conceal no.
hing. and, with the help Of God, will
rot;
Martin Thorn is just a man, with
vices and virtues like any other, and
with the love OF life just as strong with
IN him as in any of those who say he
s.rned because he loved an unworthy wo-
man: loved and trusted and shielded her
until he 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 consequences of
her own act, the killing Of the man whom
che said she feared because Of his know
ledge Of other crimes.
Augusta Mack planned and accom-
rgshed the murder of William Gulden-
elppe.
when I got 10 the Woodside cottage
that saturday morning. she met me at
the door and said: I have got Gulden-
suppe upstairs, He is dead
ashe had shot him in the face and
stabbed him in the breast, she said. l
WAS not even in the house at the time,
nut IN the doorway, and she was out OF
sight Of the people at the time, half way
upstairs / knew nothing Of her pur-
pose that day. She had asked me TO come
70 Wo1dside. l went there, and when /
arrived she told me that she had killed
al g.
was over.
,F1r a long time I hardly knew what
70 do Mrs Mack asked me TO help her
cut the body up. ! 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 I helped her TO carry the body
10 the bath-tub. 1t was very heavy.
Guldensuppe was dead. He was not
breathing when we put him in the bath
tub. Mrs. Mack did the cutting, while l
held the body. First she cut the mead
of. then she took the saw and sawed
the trunk in two, and then the legs she
was afraid the saw would go through
the wrong place in the body but she
finally got the right place
KNEW SOMETHING OF SURGERY.
she mentioned at the time that it was
q good thing she knew something about
surgery, or else it would be Impossible 10
get rid Of the body properly. Before she
cut the body up, the clothes were taken
o. Afterward, the body was roIled up
I'm the oil-cloth and cloth that Mrs. Mack
bought at Mrs. Riger's. Then we talked
over plans 10 get rid Of the body. She
arranged for the surrey drive, and the
throwing away Of the pieces she gave
me the money to hire the surrey
"she gave me the money to hire inc
ZVoodeide cottage. where she said she was
"a start q place TO treat women VINO
,,,are in trouble who wanted II Kept
Quiet. After we threw the head INTO
The river and disposed Of the pieces OF
the body, as the papers have stated sHe
took Guldonsuppe's clothes and puIleu
them in q stove. 49,.
1T was nothing but my love Tor MIs'
Mack that got me into all TINS tIouole'
/ balnad her get rid Of the dead body 10
shield her and to save her from Delhs
arrested. .,,-
Everybody has lied about me in this
case, principally because nave Ho'
talked or explained.
They say / told Gotha that 1 killed
Guldensuppe. IL is a lie. l told MIN lhat
Mrs Mack killed him. They say l onered
10 confess 10 Captain O'Brien so l could
get free. That IS another lie. L told
Captain O'Brien something Of a private
nature that did not concern the case
Intimately. ] give him permission 10
speak now. He will clear me. Ihey say
too. that 1 threatened TO murder MlIIianl
Guldensuppe. Yes; l said l would XIII
him before he killed me- He almost
Killed me. and threatened my life every
lime he mentioned my name TO MIS-.
Nack Augusta told me so, and tod me
10 look out and have a pistol 10 shoot
MIN, but not 10 do it in her house. She
would get into trouble, she SAID.
thought she told me that because she
loved me. ! now know she feared Gul-
deHsuppe, and wanted TO have me XIII
him so she would not suffer.
TURNED EVERYTHING AROUND.
Mrs. Mack told the jury that l com
nitted the murder I'm just the way she
actually did Il herself. She turned every
thing around She reversed the whole
toTy accusing me OF just what she ola.
'She is afraid 10 so on the stand. lie:
lawyers will not let her go on and tes-
tiy against me, because they know that
] can prove her a liar-can prove that she
herself killed Guldensuppe. because he
knew Of other crimes she had committed
and because she was afraid that Guldcn-
flppe would kin her for having had any
thing 70 90 with me.
Il can ask that woman questions that
She cannot answer without showing con-
clusiycly that she has sworn TO lies. and
what IS more, / have witnesses TO cor
rObOrate me.
SimeD MARTIN THORN"
There Is every probability that the case
Of Thorn will so 10 the jury not later
than Wednesday next, and possibly Tues
day night William f. Howe, Thorn's
attorney has promised TO finish his side
OF the case on Monday. Thorn will tes-
ufy IN his own behalf, and accuse Mrs.
Mack Of killing Guldensuppe. other Wit
nesses for the defence will probably be
Mrs. Zeigler. Of West Farms. Of whom
# is alleged. Mrs. Mack, with Gulden-
suppe. wanted TO hire a house, the nego-
tiations failing because the house did not
have sewer. and Hermann Mack, Mrs.
Nacks husband.
II Is a question whether Mack will be
allowed TO testify against his wife when
abe is put on trial for her life.
MRS. MACK IN REBUTTAL.
j, Is understood that after the defence
closes Mrs Mack will be called by the
prosecution IN rebuttal. 70 repeat her con-
fesSion. and accuse Thorn Of the murder
District-Attorney Youngs did not want
70 put Mrs. Mack on the stand again, |
because she made an unfavorable impress |
zion on the jury at the first trial as
che related the details OF the horrible |
crime II Mack IS called again az a wit |
ness for the State. II viii be because |
l)iHtrfct- A tfOrney Xoung0 a. coppetlod IN 1