The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-11-25
MRS. MACK IN COURT
NOT PRESENT TO TELL HER
STORY, BUT TO BE IDENTI-
FLED.
LINE OF THORN DEFENSE.
CRIME, IF POSSIBLE, is TO BE
FASTENED ON THE
WOMAN.
PRISONER WILL GIVE EVIDENCE.
A Statement by the Attorney Who Is
Defending the Barber to This
Effect.
Office Hours-9a IN. to 6 p. I

NEW YORK, Nov. 24-The trial Of
Martin Thorn for the murder of Will
liam Guldensuppe was continued in the
Queens county court today. The gall
leries on each side of the court room
were mostly occupied by women, for
whom the trial possesses an extraordi-
nary attraction. A fortnight ago Mrs.
Mack created a sensation by going on
the stand and accusing Thorn of hav-
ing killed her former lover Gulden-
suppe. Since that time the defense has
changed it's base. Mr.. Howe said in
court today that the defense will now
endeavor to prove through Thorn, as
the principal witness, that Mrs. Mack
herself committed the crime.
The early part of today's proceedings
was entirely taken up with evidence
to prove the corpus deficit. Coroner
Tuthill, during his examination, stated
that the cause of death was a stab
wound between the fifth and sixth ribs,
which penetrated the heart. Later in
the day the prosecuting attorneys,
through fellow barber Of Thorn, con-
nected him with the possession of
stiletto, the blade of which was over
six inches in length. The district at
torney tried hard to get this witness
to declare that Thorn had spoken of
his relations with Mrs. Mack and Gull
densuppe, but Lawyer Howe was equal
to the occasion, and the court invari-
ably sustained his objections.
Some of the witnesses examined to-
day reside in Woodside, and they told
of the visits of a gaily dressed woman,
who appeared in the vicinity Of the cot
tage with a man in light -colored clothes
on the day of the alleged murder, June
%. They had also seen a man wearing
dark 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 ident-
flied Thorn as the man in dark clothes,
and two of them identified photographs
of Guldensuppe as being the man who
had worn the light suit. None Of Them
however, had seen any traces of the
latter 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 witness
es This request brought about legal
argument and finally Mr.. Howe was
polling 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. The morbid
curiosity of the majority of the spec
tators was gratified in the afternoon
session by the production in court Of a
piece Of the bone of one of Gulden-
suppe's thighs, to which was attached
some shreds of flesh. This CHASTITY ex-
hibit was sealed in a glass jar. DR..
O'Hanlon explained that he cut this
portion off to show how infinitely it
fitted into the corresponding piece OF
the bone which protruded from the
stump Of the lower part Of the trunk.
Police Capt. Stephen O'Brien, for
merly in charge of the New York de-
tectiye bureau, was on the stand for a
considerable portion of the afternoon
and told a great deal of what Martin
Thorn had said to him when the pris-
oner was being put through what is
known among criminals as 1.-The thirty
third degree" Thorn at that time had
! denied all knowledge of the killing of
| Guldensuppe Capt. O'Brien also said
that when he was questioning Mrs.
Mack when she was arrested four days
| after the murder was alleged to have
been committed, she said: "Gulden-
suppe did not treat me right. l love
Thorn and would die for him"
1t was at that time that Mr.. Howe
said: 1--WE say right now that we will
| show that Mrs. Mack committed the
murder and what she said to the cap