The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-11-24
GULDENSUfPG'S WOUNDS
Medical Testimony as to
the Manner Of the Bath
Rubber'S Death.
MORBID WOMEN IN COURT
Thorn's Alleged Story as to the
Disposition of the Head Mrs.
Mack to Be in Court.

COURT HOUSE, LONG ISLAND CITY,
Nov. "A, lS97.-The second trial of Martin
Thorn, who is charged with the killing
Of William Guldensuppe, is progressing
much more rapidly than the lawyers on
either side had anticipated.
After the jury had been completed,
yesterday, and the District Attorney of
Queens county had presented the case of
the people in his opening address, the
prosecutors, by number of witnesses
who followed each other in, quick sue
eession on. the stand, got in the evidence
of the finding of the different portions
of the body The police officers, who
had charge of these parts, we're called
and sworn as to the disposition of them.
The keeper of the New York Morgue
testified to the delivery of the different
portions at the Morgue at Bellevue Hos
pital and after some bath rubbers and
nephew of the murdered man had
sworn to the identity of the parts as
those of Guldensuppe, the Court adjourn
ed until this morning. Lawyers Howe
and Moss, Thorn's counsellors, put very
few questions to these witnesses, hence
the celerity with which the proving of
the corpus deficit proceeded.
The number of persons who applied for
admission to the Queens County Court
House this morning was very much
larger than on Monday or Tuesday This
was probably due to the statements in
the morning papers that Mrs. Mack would
be produced as witness today.
Sheriff Doht and. his assistants had to
struggle with the crowd, but no person
was allowed to pass further than the
stairway in the main corridor except he
or she had a card of admission, signed
by the Sheriff or some other person in
authority.
AS usual there were a great many
women among those who sought admis-
sion and the majority of them gained
their point.
Among the first to arrive were John
Minker and his wife, who is Thorn's sis
ter.
AS soon as they had made their pres
ence known to the Sheriff they were
accommodated with seats in the north
view of the entire court room.
When Thorn was brought in by Cap
tain Methven, he was told OF his SIS
ter's and brother-in-law's location in the
room.
The prisoner looked up and nodded his
head as q greeting to them. There was
no change in the BARRIERS appearance,
save that his moustache was a little
heavier. Ee spoke to his lawyers fer
moment, and smiled at something Mr..
Howe said to him.
Justice Maddox opened court at half
past nine, but before any witness was
called he informed the jurymen that If
they wished to communicate with their
families, on any subject, other than the
case which they were sworn to try, he
would see that they would be given every
opportunity to do So.
Thorn is said to have told one of his
cell mates that his brother-in-law.
Ti,a1- hod of thn pf
Guldensuppe by throwing it overheard
from fishing boat off the Jersey coast.
Whether Minker will be called as wit
ness could not be ascertained this morn
ing.
The first three witnesses called this
morning were:-H. Speck, A. Steuben and
Alfred Baeder, who are employed in the
Murray Hill baths. They corroborated
the testimony given last evening by
other bath employees, as to the identity of
the parts of Guldensuppes body.
Coroner Theodore K. Tuthill of New
York county, was then examined. He
described the appearance of the portions
of the body which he examined at the
morgue and said the several fragments
minute description of the ghastly finds
interested the jurymen very much, but
the prisoner did not seem to pay much
attention to the testimony.
The witness said that In his examina-
ton of the upper portions of the body
he had found two stab wounds, one un-
der the right collar bone and the other
between the fifth and sixth ribs. The
tissues around the wound, at the collar
bone were filed with blood, showing
that the stab wound had been inflicted
ribs penetrated the heart and the re-
suit of such wound would certainly be
instant death, the doctor stated.
In cross-examnation INA Dr. Tuthiil said of
death was q stab wound in the heart.
How deep was this wound?' asked
Mr.. Howe.
"I could not say. as some of the flesh
had been cut away from the breast;
'Then the wound was made from
front?" suggested the lawyer.
YES, evidently.
""The wound behind the clavicle would
not have caused death?'
mo, not Immediately" was the reply.
On redirect examination the, witness
and therefore did not know what wounds
might have been inflicted on it.
After the Coroner had left the stand
handed to the jurymen,. and they sean
ned them carefully. A recess of ten
minutes was taken at 10:4o o'clock
After recess two of the clerks from the
coroner,s office were examined, but their
testimony was unmportant
Or Phillip F. O'Hanlons deputy cor
oner of New York, was then called.
Prior to his examination court at
tendant carried a small glass jar which
was placed in front of the witness, 1t
and as soon as this fact became known
there was craning of necks, and the Wom-
en- were more demonStrative than the men
in the court room.
Just as soon as DR.. O'Hanlon had told
who he was and that he had made an
examination of the portions OF the re-
mains at the morgue, he stated that ne
had cut away a portion of the thigh Of the
dead man and said: 1T is now in that
jar
AS he said these words he reached over
and picked up the jar. 1t was ABOUT 9
inches high and 4 inches in diameter and
filled with walitish liquid in which a
piece of flesh and bone foated. The
piece was about inches wide and about
an inch thick.
and with the other he seemed to be about
to take the tin cover off it when Mr..
Howe Jumped up and said: Your Honor,
| don't think it is necessary for the wit
ness to open this jar and give us such a
gruesome exhibition. / am quite willing
DR.. OHanlon then laid down the~sex-
hibits and testified that he had cut away
This portion of the leg for the purpose of
showing how the parts fitted.
There were several audible "Ohs' and
"Oh' from the spectators in the galleries,
but their morbid curiosity had been satis-
Dr. O'Hanlon then told Of His examina-
ton Of the parts of the body and de-
scribed the wounds which We're told of by
Coroner Tuthill.
4 new witness appeared in the person
yYoodside cottage and had charge of it,
she swore that on the 21st or 22d Of June
n man whom she positively identified as
Thorn the defendant called on her to
enquire about the vacant house next to
her. of which she had the keeping. The