Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-25
COURT ROOM GALLERIES OCCUPIED
MOSTLY BY WOMEN.
MRS. MACK IN COURT AGAIN.
DEFENSE PROMISES TO PROVE SHE
DID THE MURDER.
One of Guldensuppe's Thigh Bones,
/ With Shreds of Flesh Attached,
introduced as Evidence--
Mrs. Nack's Admissions
to the Police.

New York, Nov. A-The trial Of Martin
Thorn for the murder of William Gulden-
suppe was continued in the Queens county
court to-day. The galleries on each side
of the courtroom were mostly occupied
by women for whom the trial possesses
an extraordinary attraction.
A fortnight ago Mrs. Mack created
sensation by going on the stand and accus-
ing Thorn Of having killed her former
lover, Guldensuppe. Since that time the
defense has changed its base, and, as Mr..
Howe said in court to-day, the defendants
lawyers will now endeavor to prove,
through Thorn as the principal witness.
that Mrs. Mack herself committed the
crime.
The early part Of to-day's proceedings
was entirely taken up with evidence to
prove the corpus delicu. Coroner Tuthill,
during his examination, stated that cause
of death was a stab wound between the
fifth and sixth ribs, which penetrated the
heart. Later in the day, the prosecuting
attorneys, through a fellow barber Of
tThorn's. connected him with the possession
Of a stiletto. the blade of which was over
six inches in length. The district attorney
tried hard to get this witness to declare
that Thorn had. spoken of his relations
with Mrs. Mack and Guldensuppe, but
Lawyer Howe was equal to the occasion.
and the court invariably sustained his OBJ
jections.
Some of the witnesses examined to-day
reside in Woodside, and they told Of the
visits of gaily dressed woman who ap-
peared in the vicinity of the cottage with
q man in light colored clothes on the day
of the alleged murder. June %. They had
also seen a man wearing dark blue clothes
about the house. and on the day in ques-
tion he was seen by one witness to go
in and out of the house frequently. Three
of them identified Thorn as the man in
dark clothes, and two of them identified
photographs of Guldensuppe as being rep
resentations of the man who had worn the
seen any trace of the latter after he had
entered the cottage on that Friday,
morning.
Lawyer Howe requested the court to
have Mrs. Mack produced. in order that
she might be identified by the witnesses.
This request brought about a legal argu-
ment and finally Mr.. Howe was compelled
to swear out a writ compelling the sheriff
to- produce her. Mrs. Mack was brought
into court after the midday recess, look
ing much paler than when she appeared
two weeks ago in the same court.
The morbid curiosity of the majority Of
noon session by the production in court
of piece Of the bone of one of Gulden-
suppe's thighs, to which was attached
some shreds of flesh. This ghastly exhibit
was sealed in a glass jar. DR.. O'Hanlon
explained that he cut this portion of to
show how minutely it fitted into the cor
responding piece of the bone which pro-
truded from the stump of the lower part
of the trunk.
Police Captain Stephen O'Brien, formerly
in charge Of the New York detective bu-
reau. was on the stand for considerable
portion of the afternoon and told great
deal of what Martin Thorn had said TO
him when the prisoner was being put
through what is known among criminals
as ''the third degree" Thorn at. that time
had denied all knowledge of the killing
of Guldensuppe. Captain O'Brien also
said that when he was questioning Mrs.
Mack. when she was arrested four days
after the murder was alleged to have been
committed, she said: "Guldensuppe did
not treat me right. love Thorn and
would die for him.
1t was at that time that Mr. Howe said:
I'VE say right now we will show that
Mrs. Mack committed the murder, and
what she said to the captain will bear us
out" ~
The adjournment of court was until Fri.
day.