Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-01
ACCUSES MRS. MACK.
Defendant in New York Murder
Case Throws Blame on the
Woman.

Woman.
New York, Nov. 27.-The following
statement signed by Martin Thorn, is
published in an evening paper today:
''When l go on the stand Monday
morning I will tell the true and COM
plete story of the crime for which l am
now being tried for my life. My lawyer
has advised me to conceal nothing and
with the help of God l will not.
Martin Thorn is just a man, with
vices and virtues like any other man,
and with the love of life just as strong
! within him as in any Of those who say
he Sinned because he loved an unworthy
woman; loved and trusted and shielded
| her until he was in the very shadow of
| the electric chair; loved her until she
own, to save herself from the cOnse-
| quences of her own act-the killing of
| the man whom she said she feared be-
cause of his knowledge of other crimes.
Says Mrs. Mack Did it All.
Augusta Mack planned and accom-
! plished the murder Of William Gulden-
suppe:
"When 1 got to the Woodside cottage
| that Saturday morning she met me at
the door and said: L have got Gulden-
suppe upstairs. He is dead
'She had shot him in the face and
! stabbed him in the breast, she said. 1
was out of sight of the people on the
| street at the time, half way upstairs.
| knew nothing of her purpose that day.
| She had asked me to come to Woodside
| l went there and when | arrived she told
me that she had killed Guldensuppe and
| that all her trouble was over.
For a long time 1 hardly knew what
| to do. Mrs. Mack asked me to help her
cut the body up. | hesitated, but could
not make up my mind
Thorn Forced to Help.
"'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 helped her to carry the
| body to 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 I
| held the body. First she cut the head off,
| 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. She mentioned at
! the time that it was a good thing she
| knew something about surgery or else it
| would be impossible to get rid of the body
properly. Before she cut the body up
the clothes We're taken. off. Afterwards
the body was rolled up in the oilcloth and
| cloth that Mrs. Mack bought at Mrs.
| Rlger's. Then we talked over the plans
| to 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 the money to HE the Wood
side cottage where she said she was to
| start place to treat women who were
| IN trouble and who wanted it kept quiet.
| After we threw the head into the
river and disposed of pieces of the body,
as the papers have stated, she took Gull
densuppe's clothes and burned them in a
| stove.
His Love Caused the Trouble.
"It was nothing but my love for Mrs
| Mack that got me into all this trouble.
| helped her get rid of the dead body to
shield her and to save her from being
arrested.
Everybody has lied about me in this
case, principally because l have not
They said 1 told Gotha that I killed
| Guldensuppe. 1t is a lie. | told him
that Mrs Mack killed him. They say
[ offered to confess to Capt. O'Brien SO
| could get free. That is another lie
told Capt. O'Brien, something of a pri-
vate nature that did not concern the case
intimately. | give him permission to
speak now. He will clear me. They
say also that l threatened to murder VIII
liam Guldensuppe. Yes, [ said | would
| killed me and threatened my life every
time he mentioned my name TO Mrs.
Mack. Augusta told me so and told me
to look out and have a pistol to shoot him,
but not to do it in her house. She would
| get into trouble, she said. [ thought
she told me that because she loved me.
I know now she feared Guldensuppe and
wanted to have me kill him sc she would
not suffer.
| Mrs. Mack Reversed Everything.
"Mrs Mack told the jury that COM
United the murder in just the way she
actually did it herself. She turned every
| thing around. She reversed the whole
story, accusing me of just what she did,
''She is afraid to go on the stand. Her
| lawyers will not let her go on and tes-
| tify against ne because they know that
| can prove her liar-can prove that
she herself killed Guldensuppe because
he knew of other crimes she had COM
mitted, and because she was afraid that
Guldensuppe would kill her for having
had anything to do with me.
81 can ask that woman questions that
! she cannot answer without showing con-
| clusively that she has sworn to lies and,
what is more, | have witnesses to cor
| roborate me. Martin Thorn