Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-07-09
DRAGGING THE RIVER
SEARCH FOR THE HEAD OF WILL
LIAM GuLDENsUPPE.
THORN And mrs. MACK INDICTED.
They VIII He ArraiGned I'm the Gem
eraI Sessions Court to Plead To-
pay-statement Alleged to Have
Been Made by Thorn.

NEW YORK July S.-Dragglng bdSt
river In search Of the head OF william
Guldensuppe. the murdered and dismem-
bered bath-house operator, was begun TO-
dav. under the direction Of the Detective
Bureau. Acting Inspector OBrien is less
confident Of finding the missing heau'
however. than he is Of extorting a fuii
confession from Martin Thorn, the al
legged murderer.
Martin Thorn and Mrs. Augusta Mack
have been indicted by the grand jury for
murder In the first degree, in connection
with the Guldensuppe case. Their cases
will be tried in New York county.
The witnesses before the grand jury
upon whose testimony the jury found the
indictments, were Mrs. Riger. the woman
in Astoria who sold the oil-cloth TO Mrs.
Mack; Augusta Peterson, nephew Oh
Gudensuppe, who identified the body as
that Of his uncle; Frederick Gartner'
rubber in the Murray Hill baths. who
also identified the body; August Greun-
ing. the undertaken, with whom MIS-
Mack arranged to get surrey; his as
sistant. George Bockroth, who delivered
The Surrey TO Mrs. Mack and Thorn on
the day they are said to have gone to
Woodside, and Joseph Gartha, barber,
who says that Thorn confessed the MUIR
der 70 him. There were other witnesses
but their testimony was not needed. Inc
accused will be arraigned In the General
Sessions Court TO plead tomorrow morn
ing There will be no further proceed
ings in the Police Court.
STATEMENT OF THORN'S.
Chief-of-Detectives O'Brien tonight
gave out for publication a lengthy state
ment. alleged to have been made by Mar
tin Thorn alias Torzewsh shortly after
his capture I'm Harlem on Monday night.
The prisoner, who gave his age as 80
years, and Posen, Germany, as his BIRTH
place. said that he had not seen William
Guldensuppe from the time OF the assault
at Mrs. Nack's room, on Ninth avenue.
in February last. Thorn admitted having
drawn a revolver on that occasion, ana
during the scrimmage, he claims, the
weapon was accidentally discharged.
Guldensuppe, he says, took the pistol
away from him, and beat him so badly
with IL about the head that he had TO
go 10 Bellevue Hospital Tor surgical treat
ment. Several days later, Thorn says, he
sent John Gotha to Mrs. Nack's for mis-
clothes. When the messenger returned
he said that he had met Guldensuppe
at the fiat and the latter had said that
he was sorry that he had not killed
Thorn, but that If he ever met him again,
even If he had dozen men wcth him,
he would go TO" him.
About three weeks after the fight with
Guldensuppe, Thorn says, he wrote 10
Mrs Mack, and she answered in person.
From that time up to the day of her ar
rest, Thorn says, he met the woman regu-
larly and by appointment in different
parts of the city, but on none of these
occasions did he go with her to the
Ninth-avenue house. He says that he
sent for her at Bucks restaurant on
Tuesday evening, June 18th, ana that
after the meeting they went to Central
Park, where they remained until Il 2. NJ.
While i'm conversation there, Thorn says
he told the woman about the finding OF
part of the body of a man in the East
river on June 26th, and the suspicion that
Guldensuppe had been killed and his body
boiled Mrs. Mack said that she did not
believe Guldensuppe was dead, but that
she had not seen him since Friday morn
ing. and did not know where he was.
Next day, Thorn says. he read in the
newspapers that Mrs. Mack had been ar
rested.
Going back to the days preceding Gul-
densuppe's disappearance. Thorn said:
MONEY FROM MRS. MACK.
"On Thursday. June 2ith, ] was stop
ping at Maloney's Hotel. l got up at 81
o'clock that morning and remained about
the bar-room for couple of hours. Then
l went to a saloon and meeting a barber
named Carl, we played pinocle there until
Il. NJ. | met Mrs. Mack after that on
a street corner. and we went to Central
Park. There Mrs. Mack spoke TO me
about leaving Guldensuppe and about
buying me a barber-shop in the country
spoke TO her about a place for sale at
oyster Bay, l.. /. Mrs. Mack had given
me money. off and on, in sums OF aD,ut
So and So at time, and on one occasion
as much as 500. She told me that Gulden-
suppe had been using her badly the last
six months, and l advised her to leave
him and live with me. We left the park
about 10 o'clock that night. | parted
from her. and going to Maloney's Hotel.
went TO bed.
"On Friday morning, July 25th. arose
about a. NJ, and went 10 the same
sdipOH Nitlt Idu DtcH tHe previous
day. There / played pinocle with Carl
and others l refuse 10 say anything fur
ther about that day. except that | went
to Maloneys about 10 o'clock at night and
retired 40 minutes later.
81 got up Saturday morning, June 26th,
and went out | know Gordon the news
boy, met me going over the Thirty
fourthstreet ferry with a woman, but |
cannot remember what morning IL was.
81 met Mrs Mack about o'clock sun
day evening June 9th, on a street cor
ner. We took a horse-car to Central
Park. and there sat on a bench. l spoke |
about Guldensuppe again. She told me
she had been to Bucks restaurant, and |
how Mrs. Miller asked her If she had |
not heard from Willie yet, and she (Mrs. |
Nack) said no. She also told me how she |
had sent Mr.. Buck over to the Murray |
Hill baths to find out If Willie had |
shown up. About 10 p. NJ. we left the |
park, and later on | parted from her.
II returned TO Maloney's Hotel and |
went 10 bed. | got out of bed Monday |
June 2Sth. about 8 o'clock. | |
refuse to say anything further about nay |
boufs that dayr