The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-07-08
THE MYSTERY SOLVED
One of the Murderers Con-
fesses the Crime.
THE SICKENING DETAILS
THE GUILTY PAIR.
THE BODY WAS COOLY CUT UP
The River Received the Mutilated Remains
Gold BIooded. BruteI ViIIiary
Brought to Light.


New York, July There is no long
er a mystery about the tragedy which
first came to the public knowledge on
June 26, when some boys playing on
the pier at the foot of East 18th street
discovered floating in the river bundle
which contained a portion of human
body. Martin Thorn, according to the
detective bureau, has confessed that he
committed the murder of VIM. Gulden-
suppe, Turkish bath masseur and the
former lover of Mrs. Mack.
There are some inconsistencies in the
story given out by the police, and which
is alleged to have reached them at second
hand, presumably from John Dolpha,
former friend of Thorn. who last night
led the police to Thorn's place of con-
cealment. According to his confession,
the murder Of Guldensuppe was commit
ted on Friday, June %, in the house at
Woodside, l.. l., which had been rented
by Mrs. Mack, ostensibly for a baby
farm. On Monday, the statement says,
Thorn went early to the Woodside house
and hid in closet on the upper floor.
In his pocket he had a loaded revolver,
and beside him was two pound pack
age of plaster paris. He waited for the
arrival of Mrs. Mack and Guldensuppe.
He took off his shoes, so that no acci-
dental noise could spoil his carefully laid
plan.
It was between 10 and IL o'clack in
the morning when Mrs. Mack and her
victim, Guldensupe, drove up in the sur
rey, which has been mentioned in the pre-
yi9lls stories of the mystery. Thorn heard
Mrs. Mack ask Guldensuppe q tewsqaeS-
tions about the house, and heard Gulden-
supe answer. Then Mrs. Mack, accord
ing to the confession, said:
willie, don't wait for me. Go through
the house and see how you like it.
"Oh, I'll just stay here until You come
back" Guldensupe replied. But Mrs.
Mack, according to the confession, was
anxious not to see the actual consumma
ton of the murder she had planned.
mo, don't wait" she urged "Go and
see the rooms upstairs; | think you'll like
them"
Thorn, concealed behind the door in the
closet, heard Guldensuppe's step on the
stairs as he complied with the woman's
request Carelessly Guldensuppe open
ed door after door until he came to the
closet where Thorn stood. As the door
swung open Thorn shot Guldensuppe
right in the head. He died almost in
stantly.
Thorn took hold Of the body by the
shoulders, dragged it downstairs and
showed it in the bath-tub. Then Thorn
went to the ground floor, where Mrs.
Mack was waiting.
TITS DONE" said he.
Il know" replied Mrs. Mack, 81
heard"
"Now go back to the city," Thorn said
to Mrs. Mack, land come here at 5
o'clock. Everything will be ready"
Mrs. Mack obeyed Thorns injunction,
and the murderer returned to the bath
tub. He cut off the head with a razor
and saw Then he packed the head close
ly with plaster of paris until it looked like
block of white stone. Then he sever
ed the legs, and after that the lower part
of the trunk. He wrapped it up in
cheese cloth and then in oil cloth, tied the
bundles neatly, lit a pipe and sat looking
at his handiwork until Mrs. Mack re-
turned in the surrey.
Carrying the bundles with him, they
took the ferryboat across to New York.
On the way over they threw the bundles
in the river.
How one portion of the body found
its way to the woods in which it was dis
covered is not explained in the confes-
sion.
Thorn was arraigned in the Jefferson
Market police court to-day and remand
ed until Friday, when Mrs. Nack's case
comes up.
When Thorn was arraigned, in spite
of the APPARENTLY damaging evidence of
this confession, he had a perfectly self
possessed appearance. He was neatly
dressed and semed almost the least ex-
cited of the crowd that gathered around
the ma agistrate's desk to see him and hear
all the details in this latest chapter of
the great mystery.
Acting Inspector O'Brien is quoted as
saying that Thorn has made a statement
in which he positively denies that he
murdered Guldensuppe or knows who
did it.
An examination has been made of the
bath tub of the house at Woodside. and
in trap beneath the tub about pound
of plaster Of Paris has been discovered.
This find is regarded as strengthening
the circumstantial details Of the alleged
confession.
Among the facts which have come to
light since Thorn's arrest there are
several which sFncate great lack OF
caution in tn methods employed by
the alleged mnrderer. Thorn is said to|
have taken the watch aud chain from