The San Francisco call., 1897-11-09
Strong Evidence Against the
Alleged SlayerS of Gull
denSuppe.
PARTS OF THE VICTIMS
BODY SHATTERED.
M S. Mack, the MidW .fe, VIII Next
Be Tried For Her Comp. icity
In the Fiendish Crime.
Special Dispatch 10 The CAL1-

NEW YORK, Nov 8-Surprising
murder of Martin Thorn in the Queens
County Court of Over and Termlner at
Long Island City, aud when court ad-
journed the jury had been com pleted. 1t
had been expected that the obtaining of
the jury would be long and tedious pro-
cess, owing to the wide publicity that had
been given TO the crime with which he is
charged and the supposed prejudice
against him.
The case is based upon the discovery in
June last in East River and Ogdens 8
woods, north OF this city, of portions of a
human body. The head was missing, but
by a series of curious links in a chain OF
circumstantial evidence, the portions of
the disme m bered remains have been iden-
tilted by number of witnesses as the
body of William Gutdensuppe, a rubber
in Turkish bath house in this city.
Guldensuppe had not been at his work
for several DAYS before the CHASTITY discov
cries of his imposed remains, nor has he
been seen since that time, unless, as is
alleged, he was seen in Germany by a GER
tain Carl Peterson, of whom no one seems
to know, except counsel for the man who
was put on trial to-day for murder.
The postulate of the identity of the
corpse being conceded the next thing to
be done was to look up Guldensuppe's
connections. and from them to ascertain,
if possible, a motive for his murder.
1t was easily ascertained that he
lived on terms OF intimacy with
Mrs. Augusta Mack, a midwife; that
some time before the disappearance OF
GuIdensuppe the pair had quarreed, and
that, in the woman'S fat, Guldensuppe
had fought with and beaten the man who
had sCpplanted him in his mistress affec-
ton, Martin Thorn, a neigh Dor, who,
smarting under the beating, was over
heard to threaten to get even with Gulden-
suppe.
Here, then, were motives that might
have inspired a murder-a woman de-
sirous OF being rid Of discarded lover,
whose proximity might at any moment
become Troublesome, and the successful
rival who had experienced the superior
proves OF his predecessor in the woman's
affe ction, and who might again be made
to suffer the pain and humiliation OF beat
ing.
The arrest of Mrs. Mack was followed
few days later by that OF Thorn, whose
wherea bouts was disclosed by John
Gotha, barber and relative of the &C
cused by marriage. Gotha has made the
statement, upon which the police rely to
aid in Thorn's conviction, that Thorn ad-
mltted his guilt to him, and since Thorn
has been confined two men who shaved
him at different times have told OF in
eliminating admissions by the accused.
Briefly, 1t is alleged that Mrs Mack
lured Guldensuppe to a cottage in
Woodsde, Long Island, where she
said she was about to estab-
lish a "baby farm; that in that cot
tage Thorn waylaid and shot Gulden-
suppe, afterward severing his head, dis
mem berlng his corpse and disposing OF the
remains in various ways.
Jacob Bumstead, Michael Mulgannon
and John Kinsey, farmers; Frank E.
Marsh, saloon keeper; Charles ]. Nichols,
oyster-man; MaDgus Larsen, conductor;
John E. Conklin, mechanic; David B.
Wheeler, potisher and printer; John C.
janitor; ?. Waters, grocer; T.
B. Bellows real-estate broker, and Joseph
l. Townsend, farmer were accepted as
Jurors, and the court then adjourned un-
I'll 10 A. NJ. to- morrow, when the trial will
begin.