Birmingham state herald., 1897-07-02
NEW YORK MURDER PUZZLE The HeadIeSs Trunk Has Been
 Identified Again. THE MIDWIFE, MRS. MACK,
Refuses to Throw Any Light on Her Missing
 Lover.
SEEN BY A DESERTED WIFE
ant Husband-The Police As- sume an Air of Con-
 plac ncy.

New York, July Mrs. Augusta Mack, the midwife, who is under arrest in con rection with the murder of the man sup posed to be Wm. Guldensuppe, spent. the night prisoner at police headquarters. She still insists that Guliensuppe has not been murdered and that he will turn up alive before leaving. Mrs. Mack slept wei. all night. A reporter found her in a cheerful mood this morning. She in- sisted that she saw Guldensuppe on Sat urday afternoon, two hours before the first portion of the body was found float ing in the East river at the foot of Eleventh street. There is considera be skspticism among the police as to the murdered man being Guldensuppe, not withstandng the positive Identification of the deformed finger by ten of the mis- sing mans friends.
 Dr. Crosby, four attendants from the hath house and an uLl1rown man called at tf.o n.orgue today and identified the legs as those of Guldensuppe.
 Every effort is being made to extract an admission from Mrs. Mack that she has knowledge of the murder of Gulden- suppe. She was subjected to a physical examination by police station matrons this afternoon which. it was asserted that her person showed marks which in- dicated that within a few days she has been engaged in hard struggle. Dur ing the examination Mrs. Mack is said to have been almost hysterical and to have nearly broken down several times. Mrs. Mack was arraigned before a po- lice magistrate by a cordon of Central office men and her lawyer. She was visi- ply nervous. She clutched her hands and her face was remarkabl pale. She listened with eager attention to all the proceedings. Her attorney objected to his client being held. There was no proof that she had committed a crime The magistrate decided to continue the preliminary hearing from day to day until the matter Is settled. A formal complaint will be made when she is again arraigned tomorrow afternoon.
 Inspector O'Brien in charge of the de- rtective bureau, said tonight that he did not care to speak officially when asked as to whether the body is that of Gulden- suppe, but admitted that to be the conclu- sion he had drawn from the evidence at hand. He positively declined to answer the questions as to whether the murder was committed in Mrs. Nack's apart ments. When the woman is arraigned to- morrow O'Brien says he will have all the witnesses present including Mrs. Riger, the Long Island shop keeper, who has made a statement to the effect that she sold to woman whom SC subsequently, recognized as Mrs. Mack, the piece of oil cloth, parts of which appeared around the several parts of the body when sub sequently found O'Brien seemed to im- press some doubt as to whether Mrs Riger will consider her impressions or memory strong enough to swear to the Identification in court. If she does not material link in the chain of evidence against the prisoner will have been lost.
 O'Brien said he 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 her assertions. He said that he has found the original telegram which Mrs. Mack said GuldenSuppe had sent to her on Saturday afternoon asking her to go to the baths and tell the superintend- ent to appoint another man in his place. The acting inspector said the message was written in German and was signed by the words civilian Gu1densuppe' but he declined to disclose it's exact Ian guage. If this telegram is genuine and was in reality sent by Guldensuppe it is sufficient proof that Guldensuppe was alive after the first portion of the dis membered corpse was found on Saturday afternoon in the water of East river for it was sent some time after that.
 In the search of the womans rooms today the police found small piece of white oil-cloth similar to some of the same material with which the par-s of the corps were wrapped. It Is oil-cloth Of common sort, and Is used frequently in cases requiring the attendance of a midwife. Mrs. Riger. the Long Island
 
 not sell any stuff of that kind 10 the woman who bought the patterened arti- cles last week. Nothing else of suspi- ciou,s nature was found In Mrs. Nack's room as far as the police would admit. It was said that no blood spots in any part of he premises were found and no evidence of struggle anywhere about The only supposed blood spots thus far revealed, O'Brien declared. were on the barrel of revolver found in the wo- mans sitting room. Both Coroner Tutt- hill and his physician, O'Hanan, averred that stains on that weapon seemed to be blood spots. They were in doubt as to whether the saw and butcher knife were so spotted.
 Mrs. Emma Miller and her young daughter, Amy. the latter being the child who stayed with Mrs. Mack last Saturday night were al polic@ headquart rters to- nigh. and consulted with OiBren, but the head of the detective bureau declined to say what was learned.
 A woman calling herself Mrs Folsom. the wife of Sergt. Folsom, of Fort Ham, ilton, called at the nlorgue this after noon and after viewing the n1utilated body said to be The remains of William Guldersuppe, declared that 1t is the corpse of her former husband. Alpheus F. Clark. She claimed to Identify 1t by ring mark on the left finger of the left hand She says that Clark disappeared twenty years ago. but returned about six mon hs ago. She had remarked again. Clark began suit for divorce, but did no, get it.