The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-11-09
GULDBNSUPPB'S body.
Jury in Long Island City
Told of the Finding of
Sections of 1t.
PROSECUTOR YeUNG's ADDRESS
Thorn Listens UnmOved to a
Narrative of the Butchery-
Quick Work of the
Lawyers.
pROsECUTOR YeUNG's ADDRESS

COUNTY COURT HOUSE, Long Island
City, L. L, Nov 9, 1S97.-On the brightest
of days the Queens County prison is a
gloomy place at best, but this morning
when Martin Thorne, the alleged murder
er of William Guldensuppe, arose from
the cot in his closely guarded CELL the
place seemed more dismal than ever on
account of the weather conditions on the
outside Dark forbidding clouds obscured
the light and at seven o'clock the flick
ering gas jets struggled hard to dispel
the semi-darkness which hung around the
basement of the prison where Thorn IS
confined.
The barber prisoner, after his expert
ence of yesterday, was cheerful and
spoke to his prisoner with the air of one
who was confident of being released in
short time. He ate hearty breakfast
after which he arranged his toilet as
carefully as he did yesterday morning.
He seemed to share in common with his
lawyers great confidence in the jurymen
who were selected so carefully and IN
such a surprisingly short tine yesterday.
The jurors, after being allowed to go to
their homes accompanied by officers, to
arrange any urgent business matters,
were all brought to the Garden City Ho-
tel Garden City, in a special car over the
Long Island Railroad They were all safe
ly housed there long before midnight last
night. Garden City is nearly twenty miles
away from 4he Court House, but Sheriff
Doht has made such excellent arrange
ments for their transportation between
these two points that the jurors VIII nol
be subjected to any inconvenience othef
than their temporarily enforced absence
from their homes and families.
Police Captains Methyen, Hickman ana
Ashmeaa, with Constables Bayllss, Clarke
and Shaffer are in charge of the jurors,
and they arrived with them at the Court
House few minutes after nine O'Clock
District Attorney Youngs was early on
hand and he busled himself in preparing
everything for the presentation of the
case. He presented Police Captain Hick-
man. of WhiteStone and Constable Nones,
of Jamaica with pair of rubber gaunt-
lets each He instructed these two otfl-
GERS to- wear them whenever they were
called upon to handle the jars containing
portions OF the dismembered body as we'll
as the oil cloth, cheese cloth, wrapping
paper, pieces of carpet, ana any other
gruesome exhibits which will be brought
into court during the trial This precau-
ton, Mr.. Youngs said, was necessary for
the protection of the men who are acting
as court officers, in case they had cuts
or sores on their hands.
The Indictment weathert his morning had
the effect of keeping away the curious
crowd which clamored for admission yes
men who were not wanted and excused
for the remainder of the term had return
ed to their homes, the hustle and excite
ment which prevailed in the early part of
the opening day was abated very consid-
erably.
Judge Wilmot M. Smith entered the
court room at $50 o'clock and the Grand
Jury filed in. The foreman handed up
some indictments and then retired. The
Judge left the bench as soon as the Grand
Jurors went out and remained in his
private room until lU O'CLOCK.
Lawyers Howe and Mess were also on
hand early and had a short conversation
with Thorne down in the prison. District
Attorney Youngs said that after he had
presented the case he would produce as
the first witnesses the persons who found
the several parts of the body in the or
der that they We're picked up. The first
witness he said would be John Mcclure,
one of the two boys who while swimming
nj the East River at the foot of Eleventh
street, New York. picked up the bundle
which contained the upper portion of the
headless trunk
Thorne was brought into the court room
at ten o'clock by Captain Methven, to
whom ne was handcuffed as on yesterday,
and Constable Edward Rausch. He took
the same seat that he occupied yesterday,
with the officers on each side of him. and
was greeted with a warm shake of the
hand by Lawyer Howe. The Judge then
entered and the jury filed into their
places. AS soon as the names Of the jurors
were called by Court Clerk Seaman the
District Attorney presented the case.
he tOlQ the court anu jury that the peo-
pie, through him, purposed to show that
terrible crime of murder had been COM
mitted in the village of Woodside, l.. l.
on Friday, June 25 last and that the por-
tions of the dismembered body which had
been picked up within the following week
belonged to the body of one William Gull
densuppe, who was alleged to have been
June 25, and that Martin Thorn, the
prisoner at the bar, was one of the muir
derers. The people he said, would de-
10 rerniy m oil me q a
dence, but the people had prepared the
case thoroughly, and that they had Sc
cured the prisoner In firm and probably
He described the disappearance of Gull
densuppe, whose whereabouts, although
his photographs had been distributed
discovered Many person who knew Gull
densuppe in life had Identified the por-
tions of the headless body which had been
found in places widely apart in New York
and Kings Counties. He was prepared to
show, by reputable witnesses, that Thorn
and Mrs. Mack had been seen at the
Woodside cottage, and that since Gulden-
supps and Mrs Mack were seen to enter
that cottage on June 2o, the bath rubber
had not been seen alive, and it was the
purpose of the people TO establish the fact
that he was killed there that day by the
man and woman who are now in the
grasp of the laws officers.
He described the marks which in life
were on the body of Guldensuppe and paid
special attention to the tattoo marks on
the missing mans chest just where the
skin had been cut away from the upper
portion of the trunk that was found by
the swimming boys in the East River.
The-other marks, he said, would be easily
identified without doubt.
He then spoke of the motive for such
q murder and spoke of the relations be-
tween Guldensuppe and Mrs. Mack and the
jealousy which existed between the miss
ing man and Thorn, who was also an
& admirer of the woman. The purchase of
were around the bundles when found
would be traced to Mrs. Mack Then fol-
lowed the disguise of Thorn by shaving
off his mustache, his alleged confession
TO his friend, John Gotha, barber and
his subsequent arrest.
The discovery of the preparations made
by Mrs. Mack for fight to Europe was
al4zzhrought to the juryss 5 attention The
hiring of the slfrrey in which it is al
legged the parts of the body were car
ried from Woodside, and also the pur-
chase by Thorn of two pounds of plaster
of Paris was included in the District
Attorneys summary and he wound up by
telling the jury that they had very
solemn duty to perform. A human life
had been taken and justice demanded the
punishment of the person or persons who
committed the terrible deed.
Mr. Younds occupied thirty-five min
utes in his opening address. and during
the entire time Thorn kept his eyes fixed
steadily on the prosecutor, but his face
did moi betray the slightest emotion.
Before the witness was called Lawyer
Howe requested the Court to exclude all
the witnesses in the case from the court
reoxp with tfe axcepfiou of the medical