The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-12
Juror Larsen Operated on for Appen-
dicitis, and VIII BE Unable to
Leave His Bed for Two Weeks.
SECOND JURY TO BE CHILLED
MRS. Mack TO GO ON THE STAND
AGAIN AND RETELL HER STORY.
Ma rtin Thorn Also to BE Placed in the
witness Box, and Swear that the
Woman Killed Guldensuppe.

NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-THE trial of Mar
tin Thorn for the murder of William Gull
densuppe, which was begun last Monday at
Long Island City, was suspended to-day,
owing to the dangerous illness of Juror
Magnus Larsen. The jury will be dis
charged tomorrow morning and a new
trial ordered. Juror Larsen was taken ill
yesterday, and court adjourned on that ac-
count. Physicians called to attend him
found that he was suffering from appendi-
citis AT the opening of court this morning
it was announced that Larsen was unable
to attend, and an adjournment was taken
until tomorrow morning. Late this after
noon an operation was successfully per-
formed on the sick juror, and it is expected
that he will be able to leave his bed in two
weeks. District Attorney Youngs this even
ing notified the other eleven jurors to be
present in court tomorrow and receive
their discharge, and he will then ask the
court to call new jury. All the evidence
for the prosecution, whose case was nearly
completed, will have to be introduced again,
and Mrs. Mack will be required to go on
the stand and tell her horrible story anew.
Several hundred men and women who
sembled in the courtroom to-day expecting
to hear Martin Thorn refute the testimony
which Mrs. Mack gave dramatically yes
terday were doomed to disappointment on
account of the jurors illness. AT the time
fixed for opening of court Captain Methven
brought Thorn into the room. The prisoner
looked none the worse for his ordeal of
yesterday When Judge Smith arrived, a
few minutes later, District Attorney
Youngs informed him of the serious condi-
ton of Juror Larsen, and. with the consent
adjourned the court until $3.50 tomorrow.
The sickness of Larsen brought up a dis
cussion among those interested as to what
would be done in case the jurors illness
would be protracted. Would the people go
on with the case with eleven jurors?' was
asked. Lawyer VIM. F. Howe, counsel for
Thorn, said that an Italian named Cancemi
had killed policeman in Broome street,
New York, in 1857, and, one of the jurors
falling sick. the alwyers agreed to proceed
with eleven jurors. Cancemi was convict
ed, and on an appeal the Court of Appeals
ruled that neither counsel for the people
nor the prisoner could waive the constitu-
tional rights of the accused man, which
called for a trial by jury of twelve men
instead of eleven.
WHAT THORN WILL SAY.
Mr.. Howe to-day outlined his proposed
plan of defense. which he has been COM
pelled to adopt owing to the confession of
Mrs. Mack. Thorn will take the stand"
said he. HE will testify that the murder
was conceived and plotted and planned by
Mrs. Mack. We shall prove that she want
ed to get rid of Guldensuppe in order that
Thorn might take his place. Thorn will
state that when he got into the cottage at
Woodside on June % he found that Mrs.
Mack had shot Guldensuppe, and that it
was she who said: have killed him. In
other words, Thorn is going to tell the
whole truth about it-abSolutely the whole
truth" said Mr.. Howe, with dramatic
Twill Thorn testify that Mrs. Mack took
away the head or will he state 1t was he
himself who threw 1t into the river?' Mr.
Howe was asked
The lawyer hestated for a moment and
then replied wait till we have got Thorn
on the stand; he will tell about it,"
Thorn is reported to have made the fol-
lowing statement: Mrs. Mack, who says
that / killed Guldensuppe, conceived,
planned, plotted and accomplished the muir
der of Guldensuppe 1t was she who sug-
gested the actual murder, who arranged for
the hiring of the house, for the cutting
up and bundling of the remains, and event
ualy for the disposition of the trunk. Mrs
Mack herself shot Guldensuppe with the re-
volver shown in court. She went into the
house at Woodside with Guldensuppe, re-
turned and told me that Guldensuppe was
dead-shot in the temple by herself. Later
In tho day she went back to the Woodside
cottage, undressed the body and cut it up
into four pieces. She has reversed the true
story, charging me with doing just what
she did. On the witness stand l will prove
the truth. Her purpose in getting rid of
Guldensuppe, she told me at the time, was
to get him out of the way because she had
ceased to love him. / now wish to God
that l had never had anything TO do with
her. l have tried in every way to shield
her | have been silent when / might have
talked and talked when l might have re-
manned silent, all TO shield her and help
her. and she has turned on me and tried
TO fasten her own guilt upon me. Her dread
OF the chair at Sing Sing has killed all the
love she once had for me, and she is now
trying to do away with me just as she put
Guldensuppe away TO save herself"
Lawyer Joseph Il. Moss, who is asso-
ciated with Mr.. Howe in the defense OF
Thorn, was asked II, in the case of new
trial being ordered, the defense would ac-