The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-11-10
CONFESSION MADE BY THE WOMAN
INDICTED WITH THORN FOR
MURDER.
WILL GO ON THE STAND.
NEW YORK MURDER MYSTERY TO
BE CLEARED UP AT
EAST
MIR. VINCENT AGAIN DRAWS OUT.
Senior Counsel for Luetsert No
Longer Connected With the
Famous Chicago Case.

NEW YORK, Nov. 9.-The Herald
tomorrow will say: Emanuel Friend,
counsel for Mrs. Augusta Mack, was at
the Harlem opera house last night. 1t
was noticed when he came into the
lobby that he appeared nervous and
excited. His extreme nervousness
caused some comment and he remark
ed casually that he had just come from
O. long interview with his client Mrs.
Mack. He sat half the play through
and on coming out said: Mrs. Mack
has confessed. That is all I can say.
She has confessed and will go on the
stand tomorrow against Thorn. 1 can
not talk about the matter any further.
I have made a solemn promise Of
secrecy. There is no use Of trying to
see me later-there is no use trying to
see any one else. Even Mr. Howe does
not know. The few others who do
know are pledged to secrecy as I am.
1 shall go home, disconnect my tele-
phone and refuse to see any one or
answer any questions. Mrs. Mack has
made q full confession-that's all 1
can say"
The Herald will further say: Mrs.
Augusta Mack has made a full confess
sion. She had until yesterday not ut
tered a word that would incriminate
her. She had withstood the efforts
made by the police to eXtOrt from her
an admission that she had killed Will
liam Guldensuppe, or that she had
planned his death and lured him to
Woodside, L. l., where Martin Thorn
actually did the shooting. The woman
had been subjected to the thirty-third
degree by the police--to every known
method of torment. She had been con-
fronted with the horrid masses of flesh;
she had been coaXed, Wheedled and
threatened. The promise of life had
been held out to her as a reward for
few words that would surely result
in Thorn's execution. She had remain
ed firm during her imprisonment at
police headquarters. At all hours of
the day and night she had been besieg-
ed, but she had kept her own coun-
sci. Now she confesses, by what direct
influence is not known.
The story that Mrs. Mack has told
and that she will be called upon to re-
peat to the jury is full Of dramatic
interest. She has described at great
length her life with 9Guldensuppe in
Thirty-fourth street She quarreled
with him frequently after Thorn ap-
peared upon the scene. Guldensuppe
was violent, and to rid themselves of
him she and Thorn determined to kill
him. She induced him to go to Wood
side to inspect cottage which she
had hired, as she told him, to conduct
her business as midwife. She sent him
upstairs alone, and, when she heard
shots, she knew that Thorn had car
ried out his promise. The greatest diff
ficulty was to obliterate the traces of
murder. The only plan that appeared
safe and sure was to cut the remains
into fragments small enough to be
carted away without suspicion. When
the packages had been prepared, Mrs.
Mack and Thorn hired a. surrey in this
city and drove to- Woodside. They
threw some of their bundles into the
East river, but were then frightened
by the approach of deck hands on the
ferry boat, and they drove on until
they found an unfrequented spot to
leave what remained. The discovery
of the body was followed within a few
days by her arrest.
Regarding the alleged confession of
Mrs. Mack, the Herald will print the
following interviews: District Attorney
Rosalsky said: 81 left Mr.. Youngs only
ten minutes ago and Mr. Youngs knew
nothing of the confession. 1 don't
the alleged confession. [ have heard
nothing about it from any source. We
are able to convict both Thorn and
Mrs. Mack We can DO so beyond
doubt. However, if she has made the
confession it may have been to Eman-
uel Friend. We are going on in the
morning to prove our case in the usual
way"
William F. Howe, senior counsel for
Martin Thorn, said at the Park Ave
nue. hotel tonight: This is atrocious.
1 had the most perfect defense ever
presented in a court. / am utterly at
a loss to understand how any lawyer
with the entire absence of evidence
against Mrs. Mack would have sane
toned her making a so-called confess
sion, for, assuming that her story be
true which I deny, in so far as it
may implicate Thorn, II it does in any
way, there was no evidence in the pos
session of the district attorney to show
Mrs. Mack was anything more than
an accessory after the fact if Gulden-
suppe was killed in the way attribut
ed"
Sheriff Dohe says he knows nothing
of any confession made by Mrs. Mack.
He stated, however, that Mr.. Friend
was cloSeted with Mrs. Mack for
long time this evening.
TRIAL OF THORN