The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-11-08

IN Ine IdT northern part OF the CITY
many miles from East Eleventh street,
found a bundle which was similar to
that picked up the day before in the
East river. In oil cloth, brown paper
and cheese cloth was wrapped the
lower half of a mans trunk. 1t was
the a missing from the East river
find.
The head and legs were still missing,
thus seemingly rendering it impossible
to establish the dead mans identity.
The head is still missing, but the body
has been identified and the mystery I'M
raveled, thanks to the keen and smart
work of New York newspaper report
ers. A reporter got the idea that the
man in life, judging from his hands,
was a masseur or something Of that
kind, and he started to work out an
Identification on this basis. At the
Murray Hill turkish baths he learned
that one of the attendants, william
Guldensuppe, had not been seen since
the very day upon which the murder
vas supposed to have been committed.
The reporter also discovered that there
was a woman named Mrs. Augusta
Mack. who had abandoned her husband
for Guldensuppe.
Mrs. Mack lived on the second floor
of 4S9 Ninth avenue, and thither the re-
porter went. Yes, she knew Guldep=
suppe, but she had not seen him for
a few days. She was perfectly cool,
but there was something about her tina
aroused the suspicious of her ~interroga-
tor. He went back to the baths and
had the attendants there, who knew
G~uldensuppe well. go with him to the
morgue. These men had no difficulty
In Identifying the trunk and arms as
those of Guldensuppe. They had known
him for years, and had daily seen him
stripped to the waist at his work. Where
the skin was cut from the breast Gull
densuppe had carried the tattoo marks
which would have made identification
easy. The reporter then hurried back
to Mrs. Nack's house, where he found
her preparing 20 move to another res
idence. The woman was perfectly cool
n answered all questions plausibly,
but, as discovered almost Immediately,
lied un~hesitatingly. These lies have
helped to weave a network of damning
evidence against her. Other reporters
kept watch on the house, so that the
midwife might be tracked wherever she
went, and then the story was given to
the police, who were still houndering
In the dark.
Mrs. Mack was arrested, and her hus-
band, from whom she was separated,
was captured while driving a bread
wagon. He, however, established his
innocence sufficiently we'll to procure
his discharge. BY this time 1t was
learned that G%uldensuppe had a rivaI
for the affection Of Mrs. Mack in one
Martin Thorn, a barber. Both men had
quarreled about the woman and had
threatened each others lives. Thorn
had disappeared, and It was believed
that he had shipped for Germany, and
hat he would be taken into custody
on his arrival there. Meanwhile the
missing legs were found close to the
navy yard in Brooklyn. They werf
tied up in oilcloth, paper and cheese
cloth similar to the wrappings Of the
two bundles previously found. Tht
bath attendants then made the identi'
hcation more positive. Nothing wa
left to perfect the Identification but tn
head.
AT last came the arrest Of Thorn
The mar had never left the city. II
had merely shaved of his mustache
and with this simple disguise he rub
bed clothes with the officers who wer
looking for him. Had he held hi
tongue he could probably have con
tinued to live in this city unmolestet
Thorn, however, liked his beer and wa
fond of His terrible secre
vas too much for him, and so one ia
he unburdened his mind to an old frien
and fellow barber, John Gotha. Goth
he aWora to secrecy, but the secret wa