Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-08
MURDER WILL OUT.
Martin Thorn and Mrs. Mack
to Go on Trial, Today,
Charged With the Recent Murder
Of VIM. GuIdensuppe.
Sketch Of One Of Most Brutal Crimes oil
Present Century.

New York, Nov ga murder as
shocking in the fiendish details of its
execution, as ever took place within the
confines Of a great city, was presum-
ably committed, Friday, June 25, in a
lonely cottage at Woodside, L. 1. Will
liam Guldensuppe, a Turkish bath at
tendant, was the victim and Martin
Thorn, barber, and Augusta Mack, a
midwife, stand accused of being his
murderers. Their trial will begin in
Long Island City, today, before Judge
Maddox The story of the crime brist-
les with details of the degeneracy of
human beings. 1t is a tragedy of de-
| generacy the last act of which has yet
| to come.
| In itself it upholds in a startling
manner the general belief in the wis
dom of the old saying murder will
out" No murder was ever more care
fully planned nor did murderers ever
thake more pains to cover up their
tracks by effectually disposing of the
remains of their victim. Yet within "a
hours it was known to the world that a
murder had been committed and the
pursuit of the butchers had begun.
| Two of those youths of the lower
East Side of New York, who spend
their summer days in the East river or
on the stringpieces Of the piers, were
the accidental discoveries of the horri-
BILE crime. The boys were John Nc
CURE and James McKenna. They were
preparing for their afternoon dip
June q. at the foot of East 11th street,
when the sight of a rather strange
| ln0kinO hrtnd1o ho lido
FASTENED their movements. In a mo-
ment they were in the water and tow
| ing the bundle in shore. One back or
the dock the boys lost no time in cut
ting the stout cord which was wound
around their prize and undoing the roll
of oilcloth which formed the outer
| covering. But they had not yet
| reached the contents of the bundle.
| There were still other coverings Of
| heavy brown paper and cheese cloth.
The boys worked with their hearts in
| their mouths until those had been re-
| moved and then there was a yell of
terror and both lads stood borrow
stricken and speeches..
There on the pier lay the mutilated
! trunk of a man with the arms folded
across the breast. 1t was the upper
portion of the body from the hips to
the throat The arms, strangely
| enough, had been allowed to remain
| but the cutting of the neck and the
| trunk had been carefully done. From
! the breast a slice of skin had been re-
moved and over the spot the unfortu-
nate mans arms had been placed as if
to conceal it. The boys were quickly
surrounded by a surgging mass Of peO-
pie who We're anxious to view the grus-
some find and then the police came.
At first it was considered that some
medical student had played a grim joke
at the expense of the sensibilities of the
general public. but a coroner's physi-
clan. after cursory examination, set
tied the discussion, as to the probabili-
ties and possibilities of the affair, by
declaring that undoubtedly a murder
had been committed. Then there was
a genuine sensation. Death, according
to the corornor's physician, had re-
suited from stab wound inflicted with
long keen knife which had penetrated
the heart. The knife had also been
driven through the left shoulder into
the lung. Thinking people as we'll as
had become of the other portions of
the body?" But nobody had any idea
as to where an answer would come
from. The tide might make a general
delivery or possibly drags would find
the missing portions on the bottom of
the river.
Before anything could be done in the
dragging line, another discovery was
made which further deepened the mys-
terry. but afterwards aided materially
in unravelling it. On Sunday morning,
June q, man and two boys while
picking berries in Ogdon woods near
Washington bridge, in the far northern
part Of the city many miles from East
18th street, found a bundle which was
similar to that picked up the day be-
fore in the East river.
The three had read the accounts OF
the peculiar bundle picked up by the
swimmers and instantly notified the
police, to whom they said that the
newly found package might contain
another part Of the body, and in a few
minutes the correctness of their sus-
PIGEONS was proven. In Oil cloth.
brown paper and cheese cloth was
wrapped the lower ndII OF q man
trunk. 1t was the half missing from
the East River find.
To whom did this poor carved body
belong? What was its owner in life?
Who was the murdered man? Who
were his murderers? For one person
alone was not concerned in it, Those
were questions to be answered by the
detective force but from the chief to
the humblest member 1t was simply a
case Of blank amazement and absolute
incompetence even to make q begin
ming Of unravelling the terrible mys-
terry The head and legs were still |
missing. thus seemingly rendering it |
to establish the dead mans |
identity.
The head is still missing but the body |
has been identified and the mystery |
unravelled. thanks. not to the police,
but to the keen and smart work of New
York newspaper reporters. Various
semi identification were made. but
hour by hour the case seemed to grow
more and more hopeless.
Then reporter got the idea that