The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-07-02
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MURDERER PARAMOUR HAS
SLIGHT HOPE LEFT.
MAY PROVE TIMELY
Tried Before Magistrate But Trial is to be
Continued Daily--Detective 0bren
Will Not Talk to the
Reporters,
Reporters.


/ New York, July Mrs. Augusta
Mack, the midwife, who is under arrest
in connection with the murder of the man
supposed to be VIM. Guldensuppe, spent
the night prisoner at police headquar-
ters. She still insists that Buldensuppe
has not been murdered and that he will
turn up alive before long. Mrs. Mack
slept well all night.
A reporter found her in a cheerful mood
this morning. She insisted that she saw
Guldensuppe on Saturday afternoon, two
hours after the first portion of the body
was found floating in the East river at
the foot of Eleventh street. There is
considerable skepticism along the police
as to the murdered man being Gulden-
suppe, Notwithstanding the positive iden-
LITIGATION of the deformed finger by ten
of the missing mans friends.
DIR. Cosby, four attendants from the
bath house and an unknown man called
at the morgue to-day and positively iden-
titled the legs as those of Guldensuppe.
Every effort is being made to extort
an admission from Mrs. Mack that she
has knowledge of the murder of Gulden-
suppe She was subjected to a physical
examination by police station matrons
this afternoon, after which it was as
serted that her preson showed marks that
indicated that within few days she had
been engaged in a hard struggle.
During the examination Mrs Mack is
said to have been almost hysterical and
to have nearly broken down several
times.
Mrs. Mack was arraigned before a
police magistrate this afternoon. She
was accompanied by a Gordon of central
office men and her lawyer. She was
visibly nervous; she clutched her hands
and her face was remarkably pale She
listened with eager attention to all the
proceedings. The attorney objected to his
client being held. There was no proof
that she had committed a crime.
The magistrate decided to continue the
preliminary hearing from day to day, I'M
til the matter is settled. A formal com
plant will be made when she is again
arraigned tomorrow afternoon.
Inspector OBrien. in charge of the
detective bureau, said tonight that he
did not care to speak officially, when
asked as to whether the body is that of
Guldensuppe, but admitted that to the
conclusion he had drawn from the evil
dence at hand. He positively declined to
answer the question as to whether the
murder was committed in Mrs. Nack's
apartments.
When the woman is arraigned tomor-
row, O'Brien says he will have all the
witnesses present, including Mrs. Riger,
the Long Island city Shop-keeper who
has made a statement to the effect that
she sold to a woman whom she has sub
stantially identified as Mrs. Mack, th4
piece of oilcloth from which were cut
the parts which were wrapped around
several parts of the body when subse-
quently found. O'Brien seemed to ex-
press some doubt as to wether Mrs.
Riger will consider her memory or i'm
pressions strong enough TO swear to the
identification in court. If she does not,
a 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 tire other hand he has been able to cor
Oborate some of the assertions she has
made. He said that he has found the
original of the telegram which Mrs. Mack
said Guldensuppe had sent to her on Sat
urday afternoon, asking her to go to the
baths and tell the superintendent to put
another man in his place there tenn
porariy. The acting inspector said that
this message was written in German,
and was signed by the words civilian
Guldensuppe," but he declined to disclose
its exact language. If this telegram is
genuine and was in reality sent by Gull
densuppe it is sufficient proof that Gull
densuppe was alive after the first por-
ton of dismembered corpse was found on
Saturday afternoon in the water of East
river for it was sent after that.
In the search of the woman's rooms to-
day the police found a small piece of
white oil cloth, similar to some of the
same material with which the parts of
the corpse were wrapped. 1t is oil
10th of common sort and is used fire.
quently in cases requiring the attend
ance of a midwife. Mrs. Riger, the Long
Island City shop-keeper, said to O'Brien
that she did not sell any stuff of that
kind to the woman who bought the pat
termed article last week.
Nothing else of a suspicious nature was
found in Mrs. Nack's room, so far as the
police would admit 1t was said that
no blood spots in any part of the premises
were found, and no evidence of a strug-
gle anywhere about.
The only supposed blood spots thus far
revealed, O'Brien declared, were on the
barrel Of the revolver which lay on the
manila in tho yyomau'S sitting PoOn