The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-11
THORN WILL
SURELY Die.
Mrs. Nack's Confession and Testi-
mony Very Damaging.
THE BRUTAL WOMAN TURNS
STATES EVIDENCE TO SAVE HER
OWN LIFE-THORN WILL LIKELY
SIT IN THE DEATH CHAIR-HOw
THE DEED WAS DONE.

New York, Nov. 10.-The confession of
Mrs. Augusta Mack, duplicating Martin
Thorn in the murder of Guldensuppe.
was given out this morning. She repeats
In detail all the gruesome circumstances
surrounding the horrible butcberv. as
confessed by Thorn to his barber fr;ard
Gotha.
Mrs. Mack says she inveigled Gulden-
suppe to the Woodside cottage and wait.
eel outside while Thorn murdered him
About III o'clock in the morning she and
Thorn left the cottage together and re-
turned Mt o'clock in the afternoon with
some oil cloth. cheese cloth and wrap-
ping paper, which she purchased. They
outchered Guldensuppe, who was still
breathing, and hauled his body away
The head, encased in plaster of paris
""s 'nfo"h INTO the river. s,q
She says she had no share In the kill
ing, hut helped Thorn before and after
wards. They planned weeks ahead T., do
away with Guldensuppe. The confession
was made on Sunday last. 1t will be
put i'll as States evidence
MRS. MACK TESTIFIES.
Long Island City, Nov. 1O.-Mr Howe
Was the first of counsel to arrive In tbe
courtroom to-day. He said that Mrs
Nack's confe ssion was great surprise to
MIN, and that he could not tell wbat
effect her testimony will have ON the iprv
but that he would go right ahead with
the case anyway
Mrs. Mack was placed on the stand the
first thing this morning She related
her early life in Germany, her marriage.
her acquaintance with Guldensuppe and
Thorn and that the latter had asked her
to give up the former. She reviewed
conversations with Thorn, wherein he
planned to kill Gundensuppe and express
his body to Germany.
She was nervous and Thorn pazed
steadily at her.
She recited the full history of her part
In the crime as per her confession lust
sent ont.
Many persons stood up in court to get
view of the prisoner and the witness.
Occasionally Thorne would smile as Mrs.
Mack told the story of the murder, but it
was the smile of II man badly frightened
and trying to hide the fact
After the defense had finished with
Mrs. Mack, Lawyer Howe put her on the
rack. She admitted aiding in wrapping
the lower part of the body. She was
shown photographs of part of the trunk
and gazed at the same without emotion.
Mr.. Howe asked her how many chill
dr'n she had ever killed. She repled.
as far as she knew, none. She said she
had never offered money to have her hus-
band killed. She said she never loved
Thorn, but that she feared him, and
made Thorn believe she loved him. She
said she did not help to cut the body up.
Mrs. Mack admitted that she took Gull
densuppe's clothes to New York and
burned them. She said she had bought
the oilcloth to tie up the body; that she
didn't cry then, but that she cried when
she heard Guldensuppe was shot.
She sale that she knew Guldensuppe
was being taken to Wootside to be killed.
The object of getting him there was to
Kill him; that he was her lover and was
In Thornc's way, whom she feared.
Mrs. Mack left the stand shortly after
: O'Clock this afternoon, after being there
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