The San Francisco call., 1897-11-25
AY0WED SHE
WOULD DIE
FOR THORN
Mrs. Nack's Original De-
claration to Police
Captain O'Brien.
1T FAVORS THE PLAN
OF DEFENSE.
Morbid Gathering of Women
at the New York Murder
Trial.
PART OF GULDENSUPPE'S
LEG IN COURT.
What Martin Thorn Said When Put
Through the Grim nails
"Third Degree"
Special Dispatch to THE CALL


NEW YORK, Nov. 24.-Tbe trial Of
Martin Thorn for the murder OF William
Gudensuppe 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 ac-
cusing Thorn of having killed her former
lover, Guldensuppe. Since that time the
defense has changed its base, and, as Mr..
Howe said in court too day, the defendants
LAWYERS will now endeavor to prove,
through Thorn as the principal witness,
that Mrs. Mack herself com united the
crime.
The early part of to.day's proceedings
was entirely taken up with evidence to
prove the corpus delicti. Coroner Tut
hill, during his examination, stated that
the cause OF death was stab wound be-
tween the fifth and sixth ribs which PEN
etrated the heart. Later in the day the
prosecuting attorneys, through fellow
barb,r of Thorn, connected him with the
possession of stiletto, the blade OF which
was over six inches in length.
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
a 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-
ito, he was seen by one witness to go in
end out of the house frequently. Three
ef them identified Thorn as the man in
dark clothes and two of them identified
photographs of Guldensuppe SIS being
renrase n tations of the man who had worn
the light suit None of them, however.
had seen any traces of the latter after he
mad entered the cottage on that Friday
morning.
LAWYER Howe requested the court to
have Mrs. Mack prod uced, in order that
she might be identified by the witnesses.
This request brough about legal argu-
ment. and finally Mr.. Howe was COM
pelled 10 swear out writ compelling the
Sheriff 10 produce her.
Mrs. Mack was brought into court after
the midday recess, looking much paler
than when she appeared two weeks ago in
the same court.
The morbid curiosity of the ma jority of
the spectators was gratified in the alter
noon session by the production in court
of piece of the bone of one Of GuIden-
suppe's thighs, to which was attached
some threads OF flesh. This CHASTITY ex-
hib!t was sealed In a glass jar. DR.. o. Han
lon explained that he cut this portion off
TO show how minuiely it fitted into the
corresponding piece of the bone which
protruded from the stump OF the lower
part of the trunk.
Police Captain O'Brien, formerly in
charge of the New York Detective Bureau,
was in the stand for a considerable por-
ton of this afternoon. and told a 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 al
knowledge of the killing of Guldensuppe
| Captain O'Brien also said that when he
was questioning Mrs. Mack, when she wa:
arrested four days after the murder was
alleged to have been committed. size said
''Guldensuppe did not treat me right.
love Thorn and would die or him."
1t was at that time that Mr.. Howe said
1--WE say right now that we will show Mrs
Mack committed the murder, and wha
! she said o the captain will bear us out.
The adjournment of court was unit
| Friday.