The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-07-02
GULDENSUPPE MURDER
No Strong Evidence Against the
~.. Dead Mans Mistress. s.s..
GULDENsUPPE's RIVAL MISSING.
The Man Whom the Murdered Man
Had Thrashed, and Who Is Suspected
of Completely In the Terrible Crime,
Cannot Be Located.

ol SOhpAlCAOy IA bAo AoIAAOA0 SIAhOt
Cannot Be Located.
New York, July 1.-The developments
in the Guldensuppe murder case yester-
day were not startling. 1t is pretty we'll
established that the mutilated, headless
body whose fragments were found in
parcels III East river and the Ogden
woods Is that of William Guldensuppe.
The police appear to consider the iden-
tification satisfactory. Mrs. Mack, the
muscular Bavarian woman with whom
Guldensuppe was living, will becharged
with murder, even though no stronger
evidence against her is obtained. Her
conduct since Friday. when Gulden-
suppe disappeared, has been suspicious,
and her statements contradict them
selves, and some of them have been
disproved by the police. Still there IS
no direct evidence against her.
The man Martin Thorne, who is said
to have been rival of quldensuppe in
Mrs, Nack's affections, and who once
received a beating in fight with the
bath rubber, is not to be found. His
name is brought into the case because
he is the only bitter enemy Gulden-
suppe Is known to have had.
Mrs. Mack bears up very well under
the terrible accusation. Search of her
house yesterday did not materially
strengthen the case against her. The
police are tracing her movements on
Saturday, the day after Guldensuppe
droped out Of sight.
Mrs. Mack was arraigned before
police magistrate yesterday afternoon
She was accompanied by a Gordon of
central Office men and her lawyer. She
was visibly pervous she clutched her
hands and her face was remarkably
pale. She listened with the eagerest at
tention to all the proceedings. Her at
torney objected to his client being held.
There was no proof that she had had
committed a crime. 1t had been
vaguely hinted that she had been in
strumental in the killing Of Guden-
suppe. There was no proof that the
body was Guldensuppes. Even if the
body were Guldensuppe's, what proof
was there that the man had been
killed? He might have died natural
death and the body cut UP afterwards
1t was no crime to cut up a dead body
The magistrate decided to continue
the preliminary hearing from day to
day, until the matter is settled
Inspector O'Brien, in charge of the
detective bureau, said last night that
he did not care to speak officially VIXEN
asked as to whether the body Is that
of Guldensuppe, but admitted that to
be the conclusion he had drawn from
the evidence at hand. He positively
declined to answer the question as to
whether the murder was committed in
Mrs. Nacks apartments. When the
woman is arraigned today O'Brien says
he will have all the witnesses present.
including Mrs. Riger, the Long Island
City shopkeeper who has made state
ment TO the effect that she sold to a
woman, whom she has substantially
identified as Mrs Mack, the piece Of
oilcloth from which were cut the parts
which were wrapped around the sew
eral parts of the body when subse-
quently found. OBrien seemed to ex-
press some doubt as to whether Mrs.
Riger will consider her memory or i'm
pressions strong enough to swear to
the identification in court. If she does
not q material link in the chain Of
evidence against the prisoner will have
been lost.
O'Brien said that he has caught
the prisoner in many contradictions in
the course of his interviews with her,
while on the other hand She has been
able to cOrrOhcrate some of the asser-
tions she has made. Het said that he
has found the original Of the telegram
which Mrs. Mack said Guldensuppe had
sent to her on Saturday afternoon ask
ing her to go to the baths and tell the
superintendent to put another man in
his place there temporarily. If this
telegram is genuine, and was in re-
ality sent by Guldensuppe, it is SUI
f!cient proof that Guldensuppe was
alive after the first portion of the dis
membered corpse was found in the
water Of the East river, for it was sent
some time after that
AS to the story published yesterday
that the head Of the corpse had been
taken away from Mrs Nack's fiat in
valise, Acting Inspector O'Brien said
that he had no knowledge. He had not
heard anything about the finding Of the
head, as had been reported. Coroner
Tuthil also said that he had not heard
that the head had been recovered, and
he said that he would surely be no.
titled had such been the fact,