The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-07-02
GULDENSUPPE NURDER
No Strong Evidence Against the
Dead Mans Mistress.
aUIDENgUPPEs RIVAL MISSING.

The Man whom the Murdered Man
Had Thrashed, and who Is Suspected
OF Completely In the Terrible Crime,
Cannot Be Located.
New York, July 2.-The developments
in the Guldensuppe murder case yester-
day were not startling. 1t Is pretty well
established that the mutilated, headless
body whose fragments were found in
parcels in East river and the Ogden
woods is that of William Guldensuppe
The police appear to consider the iden-
tification satisfactory. Mrs. Mack. the
muscular Bavarlan woman with whom
Guldensuppe was living, will be charged
with murder, even though no stronger
evidence against her Is obtained. Her
conduct since Friday when Gulden-
suppe disappeared. has been suspicious,
and her statements contradict them
selves, and some OF them have been
disproved by the police. Still there Is
no direct evidence against her.
The man Martin Thorne, who Is said
to have been a rival of Guldensuppe in
Mrs. Nack's affections, and who once
received a beating In a fight with the
bath rubber, is not to be found. His
name is brought into the case because
he is the only bitter enemy Gulden-
suppe is known to have had.
Mrs. Mack bears up very we'll under
the terrible accusation. Search of her
house yesterday did not materially
strengthen the case against her The
police are tracing her movements on
Saturday, the day after Guldensuppe
dropped out Of sight.
Mrs. Mack was arraigned before
police magistrate yesterday afternoon.
She was accompanied by a Gordon of
central 0fflce men and her lawyer. She
was visibly nervous; she clutched her
hands and her face was remarkably
pale She listened with the eagerest at
tention to all the proceedings. Her at
torney objected to his client being held.
There was no proof that she had had
committed a crime. 1t had been
vaguely hinted that she had been in
strumental in the killing of Gulden-
suppe. There was no proof that the
body was Guldensuppe's. Even II the
body were Guldensuppe's what proof
was there that the man had been
killed? He might have died a natural
death and the body cut up afterwards
1t was no crime to cut up a dead body
The magistrate decided to continue
the preliminary hearing from day TO
day, until the matter is settled.
Inspector O'Brien, in charge of the
detective bureau. said last night that
he did not care to speak officially when
asked as to whether the body is that
OF Guldensuppe, but admitted that to
be the conclusion he had drawn from
the evidence at hand. He positively
declined to answer the question as to
whether the murder was committed in
Mrs. Nack's apartments. When the
woman is arraigned today O'Brien says
he VIII have all the witnesses present,
including Mrs. Riger. the Long Island
City shopkeeper who has made a state
ment to the effect that she sold to a
woman whom she has substantially
identified as Mrs. Mack, the piece of
oilcloth from which were cut the parts
which were wrapped around the sew
eral parts of the body when subse-
quently found. O'Brlen seemed to ex-
press some doubt as to whether Mrs.
Riger VIII consider her memory or I'M
pressions strong enough to swear to
the Identification in court. II she does
not a material link in the chain of
evidence against the prisoner will have
been lost.
O'Brlen said that he has caught
the prisoner in many contradictions in
the course Of his interviews with her,
while on the other hand she has been
able to corroborate some Of the asser-
tlons she has made. He said that he
has found the original of the telegram
which Mrs. Mack said Guldensuppe had
sent to her on Saturday afternoon, ask
ing her to go to the baths and tell the
superintendent to put another man in
his place there temporarily. II this
telegram Is genuine. and was in re-
ality sent by Guldensuppe, 1t is suf=
ficient proof that Guldensuppe was
alive after the first portion of the dis
membered corpse was found in the
water of the East river for it was sent
some time after that.
AS to the story published yesterday
that the head of the corpse had been
taken away from Mrs. Nack's fiat In a
valise. Acting Inspector O'Brlen said
that he had no knowledge He had not
heard anything about the finding Of the
head, as had been reported. Coroner
Tuthill also said that he had not heard
that the head had been recovered. and
he said that he would suS@,y be no-
tified had such been the fact.