Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1897-11-12
MRS MACK ON
The WITNESS STAND
Turns States Evidence
and Tells the Story OF
GuIdensuppe Murder.
| defence THROW n INTO
CONSERVATION.
Self confessed Murc e:oss
Relates l.. Ls--ils OF
The Crime.
Tells Of Her Illicit Relations
With the Murdered Mall
The Victim Enticed to
his Deatll-Shot and
Dism embered by
Thorn.

! nE-e has been an cHlI dOi Ill
nary situation of affairs to day
in the Thorn murder trial III
Long Island City.
.Ir- Augusta Mack. who was
inc d with her erstWhile par
amo. r, Martin Thorn, for the
mu~Cer of her former lover,
William Guldensuppe, for whom
she derserted her legal husband,
appeared i'll the role of State s
witn-s5 against Thorn, to the
consternation Of the latter's law
yers.
For several Weeks rumors have
been current that both Thorn
and Mrs. Mack were striving to
gain a remission of a possible
capital sentence by giving suf-
fcient information to the repre-
sentatives Of the people for the
conviction Of the other. Despite
these rumors the legal represent
tatives Of the man and woman
have strenuously denied that
either of the prisoners were in
cl ned to turn informer,
Late last night William F.
Howe, Thorn's counsel, was
awakened by messenger boy,
who brought him a message
that Mrs Augusta Mack had
made a full confession, inplica
ting Martin Thorne as The muir
derer of Guldensuppe, and that
through her legal adviser she had
offered to turn States evidence
against her former lover. Thorn
was not told of the confession
until brought into court this
morning. When he heard of ii
he showed evidences of nervous
ness for the first time since his
arrest. He soon regained his
composure, however, and while
lie leaned forward and spoke to
his lawyer Mrs, Mack entered
the court room, accompanied by
her lawyer and deputy sheriff
The woman passed close tc
Thorn on her way to the District
Attorneys table. But while he
quietly kept track of her every
movement, she avoided looking
at him.
For two hours and forty min
utes Mrs. Mack remained on the
witness stand. the cynosure of
eyes, while she told the terrible
ste IF how she lured Gulden>
su, to lis death, and in tel
ling the tale she knew full we'll
that she was bringing her para
luour to the electric chair. Ere
quently their eyes met, but the
woman was not equal to the oc>
CaSion, and she always had to
turn away from Thorn's stead>
fast gaze. When asked why she
confessed, she replied that she
wished to clear her conscience,
and then burst into tears. But
when lawyer Howe began his
cross examination, he handled
her unsparlngly, and made her
own up 20 such acts of prelnedi
tation that the majority of those
who heard her admission said
that She was the greater cut
throat, and many of those who
had previously evinced a deci>
ded antipatl1y to Thorn swerved
around and pitied him.
Mrs. Mack told of her rela~
tons with Guldensuppe, how
they lived together at 43o Ninth
avenue and how the murdered
man was known as her husband.
She described Thorn's coming
to board and his fght with Gul>
densuppe. The witness told of
Thorn's threats to kill Gulden-
snppe and detailed the renting
of the Woodside house.
Gradually the lawy er led the
witness up to the morning of
Friday, June IS, the day that the
crime was committed. She said
she and Guldensuppe left New
York between 9 and 10 o'clock
that morning, and after they had
crossed the ferry, boarded a troll
ly car, which left them at the
Woodside cottage,
81 had the key to the house."
She said, land l opened the