The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-11-10

met me he said: i've shot him; she IS
dead He was very EXCITED and l was
deress breathlessiy.
What did you do then?" asked Judge
Weller.
at five O'clock. When | came back that
evening Thorn had everything packed up
in bundles. He handed me bundle which
he said contained Guldensuppes clothes.
He took another bundle which was
wrapped up in grey colored paper. He
said that that was Guldensuppe's head
and that it was. done up plaster paris
We took the trolley car and went over to
New York on a ferryboat."
.On which ferry?"
81 don't know; am stranger to the
city and can't say.
when we reached New York l went
home and Thorn went some other place.
1 cut open the bundle and found clothes" !"
Whose clothes?' asked the Prosecutor
,am ienSuppg atiesly rTPen Tpngn tbaf
evening again and he told me to meet
him the following morning Saturday at
Thirty-fourth. street ferry
Where had he put the head?'
Il don't know; he only told me that he
had done away with it, I met him the
next day at Thirty-fourth street ferry and
then we arranged about hiring a car
riage.
The woman then told in detail how the
other packages were brought in the sur
rey and were deposited in the river and
The woman spoke fairly Ineligible
English with a very strong German ac-
cent.
During the recital, Thorn's lawyers left
their accustomed seats near the prisoner
and were accommodated with chairs
closer TO the witness. Thorn listened to
every word with his lips closely com
pressed, his hands clasped and resting
on his knees. Frequently his lips became
dry and parched and occasionally he
would mosten them with his tongue His
face bore that same stolid look of in
difference which it has worn all through,
but his eyes were unrestful. When he
was not gazing at his accuser, he was
casting furtive glances around the court
room and up into the galleries, which
were crowded with men and women,
oilcloth and other wrappings and identi-
fed some letters which she got from
Thorn.
A telegram was put in evidence which
purported to be from Guldensuppe to
Mrs. Mack, telling her to go to the Turk
ish baths and tell his employees that he
had gone away and would write his rea-
sons later.
The prosecution tried to get the wit
ness to identify the writing on the tele-
gram as Thorns, but Mr.. Howe objected
and he was sustained by the Court
During her direct examination, MRS
Mack broke down and cried, but this had
no effect on the prisoner and If anything
he seemed to enjoy her discontinue, as
the old time grin played around MS
mouth.
Mr.. Howe began his cross examination
of the murderess at 10 minutes to II
o'clock. He began in very 1nslnuatlng
edge that the house in Woodside was
rented for the sole purpose of killing Gul-
densuppe there, that she decoyed him
there, that when she bought the Oil cloth
and other wrappings it was for the pur-
pose of packing up the. portions of his
body after Thorn would have finished his
murderouS task.
Adroitly and cleverly the legal expert
made the woman own up to the most
damning and cold blooded preparations
for getting rid of her lover. "And did
you cry then?" asked the cross examiner.
did you cry when you} hired the
hoSSen aNe."
did you cry when you bought the oil
cloth?''
mo"
Did you cry when you were bringing
your lover to be butchered?'
No, stolidly replied the woman :,
ttGuldensuppe was your lover was ne
not?" asked Mr.. Howe.
.sNo. he was not said Mrs. Mack, dog
gedly; 81 never loved any man outside of
my husband"
The answer caused many of the specta-
tors and several of the jurors to laugh,
and Thorn's set features relaxed Tor a
moment and he smiled also.
y
densuppe prior to the time you lured him
to Woodside?"
about a year." she replied
"You loved Thorn, too, did you not?
mo, he made me. He choked me and
threatened to kill me if I did not love
him. she said, shaking her head slowly
from side to side.
The answer made Thorn smile again.
"And now, may l ask, did you cry when
Thorn told you he had shot your lover
Guldensuppe?" asked Thorn's cousel.
y5e- 1n1 hn
piled: "Yes, l did cry then; l could not
help it,"
Lawyer Howe's manner. towards the
witness was aggressive in the extreme,
sWhat did you do when you first came
to this country? What was your occupa-
tion?''
midwife" was the monosyllabic reply.
How many children did you kill, Mrs.
Nack?" was the next question.
-sI never killed none to my knowledge,
and 1 can prove it by DOCTORS" answered
the woman with emphasis.
Several other questions in this vein fol
lowed, to all of which the witness replied
with positive denials
Mr.. Howe retired from the court room
for a few minutes, during which time
Lawyer Moss and the prisoner held an
earnest consultation.
Thorn seemed to be very deeply inter
ested and whispered to his counsel with
lips close to the latter's ear.
Mrs. Mack, in reply to Mr.. Howe, ac-
county jail she wrote a letter to Thorn
did you begin that letter with the
words My Dear Boy?' -
The witness would not say whether
these were the words or not.
"You said today that you never were
intimate with Thorn that you only loved
him because he threatened you. and be
cause he was a gentleman. Now. this
letter was written three months after the
murder, and you loved him still when you
used these words in the letter?''
The witness nodded an assent.
Mrs Nack's letter to Thorn, written II
the Queens county prison. with which she
sent him potatoes and addressed him as
Dear Martin and Dear Child and sug-
gested that they end their lives, was
translated. She acknowledged that she
had never loved him at any time and was
pretending that she did only because she
was afraid of him.
Il did everything could to satisfy
him." she said Il gave him every cent
of money had.
and turning suddenly he shouted at the
top of his voice: Mrs. Mack, was it not
YOU who shot Guldensuppe?"
The woman was startled, but regained
herself in a moment and half shrieked
mo, I did not
was 1t not you who cut up the body?'
was the next question. The woman fran
ticaly yelled back defiant No
Ibid anyone tell you to say you did not
shoot Guldensuppe?"
mo, l have never spoke of 1t.
Mr. Howe then discontinued the cross
the Court to reserve further cross-exam-
ination of the witness, which was
granted.
Judge Weller then proceeded with the