The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-12-02
TRIAL Of MARTIN THORN.
CONSIDERABLE EVIDENCE TAKEN
YESTERDAY, BEFORE ADJOURN
MENT TILL FRIDAY.
NEW LINE OF DEFENSE ANNOUNCED
Defendants Lawyers VIII En-
denvOr to Prove That Mrs. Mack
Committed the Murder-Wit-
nesses From WOOdsfde.

| New York, Nov. 24.-The trial of Mar
tin Thorn for the murder of William Gull
densuppe was continued in the Queens
county court today. The galleries IN
each side of the court room were mostly
| occupied by women, so when the trial
proceeds an extraordinary attraction will
be on. A fortnight ago, Mrs. Mack
caused excitement by going on the stand
and accusing Thorn of having killed her
former lover, Guldensuppe. Since that
time the defense has changed its base,
and, as Mr.. Howe said in court today,
| the defendants lawyers will now on
deavor to prove that Mrs. Mack herself
committed the crime. The early part
of the days proceedings were entirely
taken up with evidence to prove the cor
pus deficit. Coroner Tuthill, during his
death was a stab between the fifth and
sixth rib, which penetrated the heart.
Some of the witnesses examined today
reside in Woodside. and they told uf the
visits of gaily dressed woman, who sr-
peared in the vicinity of the cottage with
man in light-colored clothes on the day
of the alleged murder, June %. They
had also seen man wearing dark blue
clothing about the house, and OIL the day
in question he was seen by one witness
to go in the house. Three of them iden-
tilted Thorn as the man in dark clothes,
and two of them identified photographs
of Guldensuppe as being representations
of the man who had worn the light salt
None of them, however, had seen any
traces of the. latter after he entered the
cottage on that Friday morning. Law
yer Howe requested the court to have
Mrs. Mack produced in order that she
might be identified by the witnesses.
This request brought about legal ar
gument, and finally Mr.. Howe was cont
PEELED to swear out writ compelling the
sheriff to produce her. Mrs. Mack was
brought into court after the midday re-
cess, looking much paler than when she
appeared two weeks ago i'll the same
court. The morbid curiosity of the ma
jority of the spectators was gratified in
the afternoon session by the production
in court of piece of bone of one of Gul-
densuppes thighs, to which was at
tached some shreds of flesh. This ghast-
ly exhibit was sealed in glass jar. DR..
O'Hanlon explained that he cut this por-
ton off to show how infinitely it fitted
into the corresponding piece of bone
which protruded from the stump of the
lower part of the trunk. Police Captain
Stephen O'Brien, formerly in charge Of
the New York detective bureau, was on
the stand for considerable portion of
the afternoon, and told a great deal of
what Martin Thorn had said to him when
the prisoner was being put through what
is known among criminals as the third
degree"
Thorn at that time had denied all
knowledge of the killing of Guldensuppe.
Capt. O'Brien also said that when he
was questioning Mrs. Mack when she
was arrested, four days after the murder
was alleged to have been committed.
she said:
"Guldensuppe did not treat me right.
| love Thorn, and would die for him.
1t was at this time that Mr.. Howe Said:
I'VE say right now we will show that
Mrs. Mack committed the murder, and
what she said to the captain will bear us
out"
The adjournment of court was had until
Friday.