Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-08-02
MARTIN THORN.

bered body by Martin Thorn, a barber.
and Augusta Mack. a midwife were so
cunningly planned and accomplished
that the crime stands alone as the most
fiendish murder in the criminal history
of this or any other section of the Unit
ed States.
On Saturday afternoon, June %, 1897,
two youthful swimmers found a pecul-
lar bundle floating in the East river,
and they brought it ashore at the Elev-
enth street dock. A policeman opened
the package, which was heavy and wa
ter soaked and found that 1t contained
the upper portion Of a mans headless
body with the arms folded across the
breast, from which an irregular piece of
skin and flesh had been cut, with the
evident purpose of removing some mark
by which the part might be identified
The wrapping around the grewsome
contents was made up Of some red col
ored table oilcloth. cheesecloth and
brown paper and tied with stout cords.
The Trunk Found.
The following day, Sunday, June 27,
two lads, while picking berries in Og
den woods, above the Harlem river,
came across a similar bundle and rush
ed to the nearest police station. When
this package was opened, it was found
to be made up of the same sort of OIL
cloth and wrappings which made up the
first bundle and it contained the lower
portion of the trunk, minus the legs,
which had been roughly cut away from
it, When the two parts were put to-
gether at the morgue. it was found that
they fitted exactly. Two days later the
legs We're picked up by some sailors
at the Brooklyn navy yard. The lower
limbs were also wrapped in oilcloth and
cheesecloth, and before they were
brought to the morgue the authorities
were satisfied that they would prove to
belong to the same body rs the first two
portions. This surmise proved to be
correct, and the police and detectives
began a search fer the missing head.
The police were sadly wanting In
their effortE however, and were it not
for the brilliant work done by few
newspaper reporters the crime might
never have been fastened upon the per-
petrators and what seemed to be
deeply coaked mystery was lad pare
within the ensuing week. reporter
who frequently visited the Murray Hill
Turkish baths was among those who
examined the upper part of the hocy
the day it was picked up and that same
afternoon he went to the baths and
without exciting suspicion found from
the EMPLOYEES there that Guldensuppe
IN whose breast the figure of wonan's
head had been tattcced, had not been
heard from since the morning of the
o6th of June, the day before the first
work from the newspaper man went to
4S9 Ninth avenue, this city, wnere the
missing man had been living WIN MIS-
Augusta Mack who had been separated
FOR some time from her husband,
bread cart driver
Mrs.. Nack'S Story.
Further inquiries ELECTED the fact
that Guldensuppe had rival 1or the
affections of the woman In one Martih
Thorn. a barber, whom he hao peateh
ord elected from the Mack anartme nts
n short time before. Mrs Mack, Wheh
questioned as to Guldensuppe's where
obouts said that the bath ATTENDANT
Rad gone to Europe and later contra
aicted her story in many instances
The notice arrested her on the reporter
Incarnation and found that she hao
r,ode arrangements to store her Iur-
,,;+,,ra and leave for Germany.
sbarn lookout was kept for Thorn'
..,ho hod not been seen since Gulfen-
s,,nne disappeared, and orders were Is
.usd Inv the police to arrest MIN oi'
sight Thorn had one friend. 1ellow
harher John Gotha, whom ne Nls''eu
and conf,dsd to him his terrible secret
C,tbo informed the police, ana. altei
Ling a double appointment with the
sotaotives and Thorn, the latter was
orrested on July I at the corner "a
Oro Hundre.. and Twenty-ffth street
.nd Eiehth avenue while conVerslhs
With his letrayer, Gotha. IL was ieai
"a thon ,b,t Thorn had walked apou'
tb,s c,tv all the time and the on.y az
tn,,,nt he had made to disguise h'h'se''
was to shave off his rust"c.s ,,o,oth
The woman from whom the o,'> .s
,,,os purchased identified MIS- 49,
~, customer to whom she a.,'"
,t,,r and Thorn and his erst"n!ie -
.rass we're identified by the lahdioiu
= cottae e at Woodside, Queen co'I'. o,
NJ " which is now part OIL
Nav York. as having rented the ,ad
doys before the bath rubber ilao
disappeared. - ,oraa,ed blood
stains in the bathroom anu auJ n,,ta,
-oom and from the surbase oi nc c.,
ro,r, two bullets we're extracteu' -,
r ,,Io ster Of paris was found In the oa.-1'