Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-11-12

Chief Justice A. p. Carpenter of the New
! Hampshire supreme court will preside on
] the bench while Attorney General Edwin c.
Eastman and William +. Mason, the solicitor
of STAFFORD county will conduct the prosecu-
tion. The defense will be made by James
A Edgerly and James Ryan, Jr., senior aud
Junior counsel respectively.
: NEW YORK, NOV. 9-scarcely less In In
terest even to New England than the Stick
ney-Kelley murder was that OF a man sup
posed to be William Guldensuppe, a mas
seur here. Martin Thorn, paramour of Mrs.
Augusta Mack, a midwife, "a former paramour
OF Guldensuppe. is the man who has been
placed on trial for the murder. Mrs. Mack
Is under indictment as an accessory before
the fact and will be tried at the same time
for her life. The story of the crime bristles
with details OF the degeneracy os human be-
ings. 1t is a tragedy of degeneraey, the
last act OF which has yet to come. No mur-
der was ever more carefully planned, nor
did murderers ever take more pains to cover
up their tracks by effectually disposing OF
the remains OF their victim. Yet within "A
hours it was known to the world that a
murder had been committed and the pursuit
ot the butchers had been begun. Two boys
OF the lower East side OF New York were the
accidental discoveries of the horrible crime
''dip" Saturday, June &c, al the foot of East
Eleventh street, when the sight of rather
strange looking bundle floating with the
tide hastened their movements In mo-
ment they were in the water aud towing the
bundle in shore. Undoing the roll of oil
cloth, heavy brown paper and cheese cloth
the boys gave u yell of terror and
stood horror-stricken and speechless.
There on the pier lay the mutilated
trunk of man, with the arms folded across
the breast. 1t was the upper portion of the
body, from the hips to the throat The arms,
had been allowed to remain, but the cutting
OF the neck and the trunk had been care
fully done. From the beast slice of skin
had been removed, and over the spot the
unfortunate mans arms had been placed. as
II to conceal ii. At first it was considered
that some medical student had played grim
joke at the expense of the sensibilities OF
the general public, but coroner's ply
siclan, after cursory examination, set
tied the discussion as to the probabilities
and possibilities of the affair by de-
claring that undoubtedly murder had
been committed. Then there was
genuine sensation. Death, according to
the coroner's physician, had resulted
from stab wound inflicted with Il long,
keen knife, which had penetrated the heart.
The knife had also been driven through the
left shoulder into the lung. Before anything
could be done in the way of search for the
missing portions of the body another dis
covery was made, which further deepened
the mystery, but afterward aided materially
in unravelling it. On Sunday morning, June
q, u man and two boys, while picking ber-
ries in Ogden woods, near Washington
bridge, in the far northern part of the city,
many miles from East Eleventh street, found
bundle which was similarto that picked up
the day before In the East river. The three
had read the accounts of the peculiar bum
die picked up by the swimmers, and
instantly notified the police. In oil
CLOTH brown paper and cheese cloth was
wrapped the lower half OF the mans trunk
The head and legs were still missing, thus
seemingly rendering it impossible to es-
tablish the dead mans identity. The legs
were found close to the navy yard in Brook
lyn. They were tied upin oil cloth, paper
and cheese CLOTH similar to the wrappings
of the two bundles previously found. The
head is still missing, but the body has been
identified, and the mystery unrayelled,
thanks not to the police, but to the keen and
smart work of the New York newspaper re-
porters. One of the latter got the idea that
the man in life, judging from his hands, was
masseur or something of that kind and he
started to work out an Identification on this
basis. He visited the Murray Hill Turkish
baths on West Forty-second street,to refresh
himself after hard days search, and there
he learned that one of the attendants,
William Guldensuppe, had not been seen
for couple of days The missing
man had been employed as a rubber in
the baths and had prominent tattoed mark
on his breast. Close inquiries ELECTED the
information that Guldensuppe had dsap-
peared on Thursday night or early ON Fri
day morning, the very day upon which the
murder was supposed to have been com
mitted. With this clue the details of the
mans life and the identity of the probable
murderers were matter of almost mechani-
cal certainty and ease. Thorn's reasons for
killing Guldensuppe were revenge for the
latters having once beaten him and desire
to be free to live with Mrs. Mack. His vol
untary confession to q supposed friend, who
afterward betrayed him is to the effect that
Guldensuppe had been brought by Mrs Mack
to her cottage in Woodside, l.. l., which she
had rented for the purpose OF starting
baby farm, and that he (Thorn) lay in wait
for the bath-rubber in a closet in an
upstairs room. When Guldensuppe reached
the house, Mrs. Mack told him to go up
stairs, and examine the rooms while she
went into the yard. Guldensuppe hesitated,
but finally went upstairs and passed from
room to room, peering into the closets, until
he reached the one in which Thorn was
hidden. AS soon as the unsuspecting man
head, and then dragged him to the bathtub,
into which he threw him. While Gulden-
suppe was yet alive the barber drew a knife
or razor and cut his victims throat. The
division of the body was next made, and two
OF the bundles we're dropped overheard from
ferryboat in the East river. Another was
left in the woods, Thorn driving there in
company with Mrs. Mack. The head he
encased in plaster of paris, and sank it
In the East river. Mrs. Mack had helped
Thorn to make up the bundles, and it was
she who purchased the wrapping material.
The woman has been found who sold this
material to Mrs. Mack Since his arrest,
Thorn, it Is alleged, has made complete
confession to the officers, and the authorities
in Long Island City discovered a comprom-
Using letter which he tried to swallow The
letter showed an intention on the part of
both the man and woman to cheat the law
by committing suicide. Dist.-Atty. Youngs
OF Queens county, after due deliberation,
decided that 1t was better to try the case in
Queens county, as the murder is alleged to
have been committed there, although the
plot was concocted in New York. The trial
will probably last six or seven weeks.
MONTPELIER, Vt, Nov. 9-Midred
Brewster, the girl who, infatuated with John
Wheeler, killed Annie Wheeler, for whom
the man showed special fondness, has today
been placed on trial for her life here. After
she shot the Wheeler girl she shot herself. She
wanted to die, and her father hoped she
would die and save herself and family the
disgrace of q trial. She shot herself in the
head, fingered in horrible pain, and was
saved only by the skill of surgeons,
but her face is drawn out of shape by par
alysis, the result of her wounds She still
prays to die. 1t is said that her hatred of
Annie Weeeler is more than equalled by John
Wheelers hatred of his flancees slayer The
girl was doubtless crazed by jealousy, but
whether jury will hold her blameless re-
mains to be seen.