The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-11
MRS. MACK GETS Is YEARS.
Pr A OF MAESLA UG HTER xCCEPT-
ED At MIR. FOUNG'S REQUEST

The District Attorney and Justice Gnrret,eu
Say she was as Guilty as Thorn-Thorn
Jurors Biiis for Hoard. Wine. Cigars. and
billiards for Thirteen Days over 81. 900.
Mrs. Augusta Mack was arraigned before
Justice Garrctson in tho Supreme Court at
Long Island City yesterday afternoon TO plead
to the indictment charging her with murder in
the first degree. She was very calm and sclf.
possessed and did not show by her manner that
she was very much interested In the proceed.
ings.
Before moving for sentence District Attor-
ney Youngs said that Martin Thorn and Mrs.
Mack were jointly indicted for the murder of
william Gieldsensuppc and that they desired
separate trials. AT the first trail Of Thorn. Mr..
foungs said, he consulted with District Attor.
ney Olcott Of New York and with Judge Weller.
who assisted at the trial, and they concluded
that the testimony Of Mrs. Mack was necessary
to prove q corpus deficit. The prosecution,
MIR. Youngs said, was satisfied that without the
testimony Of Mrs. Mack the portions of tho re-
mains could not be identified. Mr.. Youngs
stated that while both were equally guilty, the
prisoner at the bar had rendered such impor.
.ant service to the state that he moved that n
cepted in her case.
Lawyer Friend was asked II he had anything
was accepted, and Mrs. Mack was ordered to
stand up for sentence. Justice Garretson said
liot ,snc was Equally guilty Win morn. DuU
that in.view of tho estimony she.was entitled to
ienity. When her pedigree was taken Mrs.
Mack said that she was n Lutheran and that
her mother was living. Justice Garretson SEN
tonced her to fifteen years hard labor at tho
prison for women at Auburn.
Mrs Mack was taken from the court room i'm.
medintely after sentence had been passed. She
VIII, not, go to Auburn until the end Of tho
week, When the prison authorities will send for
her.
Mrs. Mack was a witness at the first trinl Of
Thorn, which was brought to an abrupt ending
nY tha 1lnnaa nf Juror Mnpnua Tnrunn Cha
was not called as a witness at the second trial,
and the jury was especially charged that her
confession at the first trial should not have
any weight In Its deliberations.
n itemized story Of how the Jurors in the
Thorn trial were Supplied with wines, night
shirts, cigars, hot water bottles, telephone calls,
billiards, %carbonic acid. and carriages, has been
submitted to Supervisor Henry Korfmann Of
Long Island City, who is Chairman OF the COM
mittce appointed by the Board of Supervisors
to investigate the bills presented against the
county by the managers of the Garden City
Hotel, where the jurors spent their nights.
According to the bill. tho Jurors and their
attendants drank 1861 Is worth OF wine in thir-
teen days, IN average Of S27.4O a day. The
cigars smoked, according to the bill, amounted
to, S23S.4O. an average of 1884 a day. The
telephone was used to the extent of $15, and
tho billiard room was patroniZed to tho extent
OF S32.4O, an average of 81 n night for billiards.
Shaves, hair cuts, and shampoo were in
dulged In TO the amount of S42. 05. and the
hootblack Is looking for 49, for shining shoes.
The bill amounts to b, 0 4 81.