The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-25
THE MIDWIFE'S GUILTY LOVE
HER LOVE FOR THORN IN
SPIRED THE MURDER.
Testimony of a Police Captain Upon
Which the Defense Will Build its
Case

New York, Nov. 24-The trial of Martin
Thorn for the murder of William Gulden-
suDpe was continued today. The galleries
on each side of the court room were
mostly occupied by women, for whom
the trial possesses an extraordinary at
traction.
A fortnight ago. Mrs. Mack created a
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 ia court today. the de-
prove. through Thorn as the principal
witness. that Mrs Mack herself COM
mitted the crime.
The early part of today's proceedings
was entirely taken up with evidence to
prove the corpus deficit.
Coroner Tuthiu, during his eXamina-
ton, stated that the cause of death was
d stab wound between the fifth and sixth
ribs which penetrated the heart. Later
in the daY the prosecuting attorney,
through fellow barber OF Thorn. con-
nected him with a stilettO, the blade of
which was over six inches in length.
THE COUPLE SEEN.
Some of the witnesses examined today
reside in WOOdside. and they told of the
visits of a gaily-dressed woman who ap-
peared in the vicinity OF the cottage with
a man in light-cOiOred clothes on the
day of the alleged murder, June %. They
had also seen a man wearing Gark-blue
clothes about the house, and on the day
in question he was seen by one witness
to go in and out of the house frequently.
Three Of them identified Thorn as the
man in dark clothes, and two of them
identified photographs of GuldenSuppe as
being representations of the man who
had worn the light suit None of them,
however, had seen any traces of the Mt
te= after he had entered the cottage ON
that Friday morning.
LAWYER Howe requested the court to
have Mrs. Mack produced in order that
she might be identified by the witnesses.
The request brought about q great argu-
ment. and finally Mr.. Howe was COM
PEELED to swear out d writ compelling the
sheriff to 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.
GRUESOAIE EXHIBITION.
The morbid curiosity of the majority of
the spectators was gratihed in the after
noon session by the production in court
of o piece of bone of one of Gulden-
suDDe's thighs. to which was attached
some ShredS of flesh. This CHASTITY exhi-
bition was sealed in q glass jar. DR..
O'Hanlon explained that he cut this por
ton off to show how infinitely it fitted
into the corresponding piece of 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 on the stand for a considerable por-
ton of the afternoon. and told a great
deal of what Martin Thorn had said to
him when the prisoner was being put
through what is known as 1.-The third
degree
Thorn at that time denied all knowl-
edge of the killing of Guldensuppe. Cap
tain O'Brien also said that when he was
questioning Mrs. Mack when she was ar
rested. four days after the murder was
alleged to have been committed, she said:
"Guldensuppe did not treat me right
Thorn would
It was at that time that Mr.. Howe
said: eve say right now that we will
show Mrs. Mack committed the murder.
/ bear US OUT
The adjournment of court was until
Friday.