The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-07-08
THORyES CONFESSION
OF the Murder and Butchery Of
William Guldensuppe.
MRS. MACK WAS AN AoCOMPLIcB.

She Was In Love with Thorn and was
Anxious TO Get rid Of Her Tormer
Lover-Thorn says He Has No Fear
OF Death.
New York. July S.-There is no longer
a mystery about the tragedy which
first came to the public knowledge on
June 26. when boys playing on the pier
at the foot of East Eleventh street dis
covered floating in the river a bundle
which contained a portion Of human
body. Martin Thorn, according to the
detective bureau, has confessed that he
planned with Mrs. Mack, and himself
committed the murder of William Gull
densuppe. Turkish bath masseur, and
the former lover of Mrs. Mack. There
are some Inconsistencies I'm the story
given out by the police, and which is
alleged to have reached them at sec
ond hand.
According to his confession, the muir
der of Guldensuppe was committed on
Friday, June 25 in the house at Wood
side, l.. l., which had been rented by
Mrs. Mack ostensibly for baby
farm"
on Monday, the statement says
Thorn went early to the WOodside
house. and hid i'm a closet on the upper
floor and waited the arrival of Mrs.
Mack and Guldensuppe. He took off
his Shoes so that no accidental noise
could spoil his carefully laid plan.
1t was between 10 and IL o'clock in
the morning when Mrs. Mack and her
victim, Guldensuppe, drove up In the
surrey which has been mentioned in
the previous stories of the mystery
| Thorn heard Mrs Mack ask Gulden-
suppe a few questions about the house,
and heard Guldensuppe answer. Then
Mrs. Mack said, according to the con-
fession:
willie, don't wait for me. Go
through the house and see how you
! like it,"
Thorn, concealed behind the door Of
| the closet. heard Guldensuppe's steps
on the stairs as he complied with the
woman's request. Carelessly Gulden-
suppe opened door after door, until he
came to the closet where Thorn stood.
! AS the door sprung open Thorn shot
| Guldensuppe right in the head. He
died almost instantly.
Then Thorn dragged the body to the
4 bath tub and sent Mrs. Mack away.
After her departure he dismembered
/ a few hours later, they took the body
away, and as they crossed the river
| Thorn threw the parts overheard.
The confession does not explain how
one portion of the body was found in
the woods.
Mrs. Mack was desperately in love
with Thorn, and this is believed to be
| the motive for her plot to put Gulden-
! suppe out of the way. For the sake Of
! Guldensuppe she originally left her
husband.
AS the police figure 1t out, Gulden-
suppe was murdered Friday morning,
June 25 at Woodside. At 8 o'clock of
the same afternoon, they think, Mrs.
Mack went to Long Island In a light
wagon, and she and Thorn carried the
head, upper portions OF the trunk and
legs of the murdered man to the river.
and from a ferryboat threw them into
the water. on Saturday, according to
the police, the man and the woman
went again to the Woodslde house in
the surrey loaded In the second half
of the trunk and Guldensuppe's cloth
ing, crossed the ferry to Weehawken,
drove from there to Cliffside, which is
at the back and north of Weehawken,
then crossed the One Hundred and
Twenty y-hfth street ferry, and on to the
point near Washington bridge, where
the lower section Of the mutilated body
was found.
Martin Thorn is 80 years old. His
features are strongly German in type,
and he looks younger than his age,
giving the impression of being an even
tempered, good natured man. After his
arrest he appeared cool, collected and
at ease. no matter whether 1t was be-
ing questioned, haying his portrait
taken at police headquarters, or before
the magistrate In court 20 Acting Ing
spector O'Brien Thorn said that he
had no fear Of death,