The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-11-28
IN A SIGNED STATEMENT HE
CHARGES MRS. MACK WITH
MURDER.
SHE KILLED GULDENSUPPE,
TALE TOLD by THE WOMAN ON
THE STAND JUST RE-
VERsED.
HELPED DISPOSE OF THE BODY
Love of an Unworthy Woman Given
as the Motive Which Moved
Him to Aid.

NEW YORK, Nov. 27.-The follow
ing statement signed by Martin Thorn,
is published in an evening paper today:
when l go on the stand Monday morning
l will tell the true and complete story Of the
crime for which l am now being tried for
my life My lawyer has, advised me to con,
ceal nothing and, with the help of God Will
and virtues like any other man and W tn the
love of life just as strong within him as
any of those who say he sinned because he
loved an unworthy woman; loved and trusted
and shielded her until he was in the very
shadow of the electric chair; loved her until
she swore away his existence to save her own,
to save herself from the consequences OF her
own act-the killing of the man whom she
said she feared because of his knowledge Oh
other crimes
Augusta Mack planned and accomplished
the murder of William Guldensuppe. When
[ got to- the Woodside cottage that Saturday
morning she met me at the door and SAID
i have Guldensuppe up stairs. He is dead. .
She had shot m in the face and stabbed
him in the breast; she said: Il was out Of
sight OF the people the street at the
time, half way up stairs" l knew nothing
of her purpose that day. She had asked me
| to come to Woodside. | went there and when
| arrived she told me that she had killed
! Guldensuppe and that all her trouble was
For a long time hardly knew what to do.
! Mrs. Mack asked me to help her cut the
body up. I hesitated, but d not make up
you have got to help me get rid of it,"
she said, cor both Of us will get 1t. All you
have got to do is to- help me-"
AT last l helped her to carry the body to
the bath tub 1t was very heavy. Gulden-
suppe was dead He was not breathing when
we put him in the bath tub. Mrs. Mack
did the cutting VIII lie l held the body. First
she cut the head off, then she took the saw
and sawed the trunk in two and then the
legs She was afraid the saw wauld go
through the wrong place in the badly but she
finally got the right place. She mentioned
at the time it was good thing she knew
something about surgery or else 1t would be
imposs bic to get rid of the body properly.
Before she cut the body up, the clothes were
taken off. Afterwards the body was rolled
up in the oil cloth and cloths that Mrs. Mack
bought at Mrs. RIGGS.
AFTER THE CRIME.
We now talked over the plans to get rid
of the body. She arranged for the surrey
drive and the throwing away of the pieces
She gave the money to hire the surrey. She
gave the money to hire the Woodside cottage
where she said she to start place to
treat women who were in trouble and who
wanted it kept quiet. After we threw the
head into the river and disposed of pieces of
the body the papers have stated she took
Guldensuppe's clothes and burned them in a
stove.
1T was nothing but my love for Mrs. Mack
that got me into all this trouble. l helped
her get rid of the dead body to shield her
and to save her from being arrested. Every
body has lied about me in this case, princi-
planned. They said | told Gotha that I
him that Mrs: Mack killed him; They say
l offered to confess to Capt. O'Brien so I
could get free. That is another lie. 1 told
Capt. O'Br:en something of private ma
ture that did not concern the case intimately.
1 give him permission to speak now He
will clear me.
They say, too, that 1 threatened to muir
der William Guldensuppe. Yes, 1 said I
would kill him before he killed me. He al
most killed me and threatened my life every
time he mentioned my name to Mrs. Mack.
Augusta told me SO and told me to look out
and have a pistol to shoot him, but not to
do it in her home She would get into
trouble, she said. l thought she told me
that because she loved me. 1 now know she
feared Guldensuppe and wanted to have me
Kill him so she would not suffer. Mrs.
Mack told the jury that 1 committed the
murder in just the way she actually did it
herself. She turned everything around. She
reversed the whole story, accusing me of
just what she did. She is afraid to go on
the stand. Her lawyers will not let her
go on against me because they know
can prove her lar-I can prove that she her
self killed Guldensuppe because he knew OF
other crimes she committed and because she
was afraid Guldensuppe would kill her for
having anything to do with me.
II can ask the woman questions that she
cannot answer without showing concusively
that she has sworn to a lie and what is
more, l have witnesses to corroborate me.
Martin Thorn