Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-01
THORN CONVICTED.
Also Confesses that He Alone
Killed VIM. GuIdensuppe.
He Says It Is What He Expected and
What He Deserved.
Verdict on Seventh Bailot-Moiion for New
Trial Denied-Sentence Friday.

opened in the Thorn trial in Long Is
land City, today, Mr.. Howe for the de-
fence. requested that the question
asked Thorn, yesterday, as to the read
ing of Mr. HOwe's affidavit in refer
ence to the coming of the witness
Peterson, from Germany, be stricken
from the records. as Thorn was not
present when the affidavit was pre-
scented and read before Judge Smith
last October.
The judge directed the stenOgrapher
to strike out all reference to the affi-
davit from the record and requested
the jury to pay no attention to it.
Mr.. Howe then made an application
that the jurymen he permitted to go to
the Woodside cottage so they could
personally view the bath tub. Il want
them to see," said Mr.. Howe. "how i'm
possible it would be for one person
alone to cut up the body as described in
a bath tub of the size of the one i'm the
Woodside cottage. without marking the
sides of the tub"
The peoples lawyer demurred and
the court refused to grant Mr.. Howe's
request. A few minutes later Justice
Maddox reconsidered his decision and
allowed the jury to go to the cottage,
in charge of a squad of detectives.
The inspection of the cottage occu-
pied but eight minutes of the jurors
time. No one was permitted upon the
premises during the time the jurors
We're in the cottage.
There is some discussion as to
whether mistake was not made by
the court in not sending Thorn to
Woodsidc with the jury. At the time
Mr.. Howe asked that the jury be sent
to Woodside to inspect the cottage, he
said Thorn would waive his rights to
so along with the jury. and lawyers
say that the court of appeals has in a
number of capital cases decided that
counsel has no right to waive any of a
prisoners rights and that the action of
Mr.. Howe may leave loop hole for a
new trial in case Thorn should be con-
victed.
When the party had returned to the
court house and Judge Maddox had re-
sumed his seat on the bench. Mr.. Howe
began to sum up for the defence. He
made much of Mrs. Nacks alleged per-
fidy to the man she professed to love,
and commented upon the fact that,
having had Mrs. Mack on the witness
stand in the trial which was term-
mated by the illness of juror. the
prosecution did not see fit to again take
her evidence.
God forbid" he said, that justice
shall ever be administered in this state
or country SO that a murderess may es-
cape and this man" (pointing to the
prisoner) ''be subjected to even a 10
years imprisonment.
In speaking of the evidence adduced
in rebuttal. last evening. Mr.. Howe
said: Gentlemen: You heard witnesses
say that Mrs. Mack was seen in her
apartments on the afternoon of June
%. trimming hat. Trimming a hat
gentlemen. just think of it. Trimming
a hat on the evening of the day that
she trimmed the dead body of her lover
whom she killed in the morning.
Mr.. Howe spoke of Gotha as Jul
das.' a Harvey Duff. who for the sum
of money was ready to sell his master
OF his intimate friend. He said from
the day that Gotha appeared in police
headquarters with handouts on him
so as to make Thorn believe he was
also a prisoner. until the day he APP
peared on the witness stand. Gotha had
never done a days work, but lived on
the blood money which he got very
frequently from, several officers who
We're building up the case against
Thorn.
Mr. Howe then referred to the recent
visit of the jury to the cottage. He
said he was positive they must have
seen that it was impossible for one per-
son to do the cutting up of the body as
it was accomplished. The woman's
of anatomy which she is in
possession of, owing to experience in
her profession. stood her in good stead
when she was cutting up the corpse of
her former lover Guldensuppe.
District Attorney Youngs opened by
saying: THE woman tempted me and
did yield" The jurymen no doubt had
read their Bibles and they knew exact
ly who made this excuse. He was SOL
ry that both the man and the woman
were not jointly tried as they were
jointly indicted and each was equally |
guilty of the crime charged. Mrs. |
Mack was not on trial. She would be
brought in due time before another tri- |
bunal as she was equally guilty with |
Thorn. The people did not propose to |
put her on the stand to let her swear |
to lies, as to where she was or was not, |
IN the days Immediately preceding and
to the crime of the murder |
of Guldensuppe.
On the fateful Friday morning, con-
tinued the prosecutor, Martin Thorn
was at the Woodside cottage and be-
.ween and 10 o'clock. he bought the
plaster of paris. He was there in the
when Guldensuppe entered and
Thorn shot him there. Then he gave
he key of the front door to Mrs. Mack.
he night before. but he did net say
What he had done with the keys for the
,ther door in the cottage.
Mr.. Young advised the jurymen no.
o be misled by the eloquence of Mr..
lowe, which he said had been respon-
sible for many a criminal escaping
the whip of Justice"
Tho representative of the nanpIa in |