The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-22
The Woman Who Helped Thorn
Murder .Guldensuppe
Is Released From the State
Prison at Auburn.
OF Is YEARS
Is Cut to 8 and Five Months for
Good Behavior.
Is MObbed ON Her Arri val in
New York City.

| New York, July 22.-Mrs Augusta
Mack, who helped Martin Thorn mur-
der Wfiiam Guldensuppe ten years
ago and then saved her own life by
betraying Thorn to the state, spent last
night in one of the expensive new
hotels on West Forty-ninth street. She
was released early in the morning
from Auburn prison. where she had
served nine years and five months at
hard labor, and reached the Grand
Central station about 6 p. m.
Her full time was fifteen years. She
served it all less the regular commuta
ton for good behavior
Her arrival was the signal for almost
a riotous scene around the station.
There was no friend to meet her. but
several reporters greeted her on the
platform and a young man accom-
panied bv a stout, elderly woman tried
to seize her luggage and hurry her
away by repeatedly insisting, I'VE are
your friends"
II don't know you. Go away.
have no friends here. All my friends
are in Jersey returned Mrs. Mack
angr1ly.
When the aiting room was reached
word had spread who the woman in
black was and a crowd surged around
her and followed her to the Forty-sec-
ond street door. Here Mrs. Mack was
fairly backed up against the wall for
several minutes while her pseudo
friends renewed their pleadings that
she go away with them.
What shall I do?" cried the woman
rrita bly, as she looked around help
Iessly at the crowd. 'ShalI I scream
Let me alone, will you? I am not Mrs.
Mack. l do not know the woman"
She Flies Her Prosecutors.
A railroad policeman cleared space
in the crowd and gave Mrs. Mack a
breathing spell, and she took advant-
age of the diversion to step to the
street, where Matty Bolter, a free
lance cabby. faced her. with the famil-
lar cry, 'Keb, lydieH'
Yes she cried quickly. and Matty
seized her luggage Sand started oil,
agonally across the street to the Grand
But the camera battalion had been
awaiting this chance, and before Mis-.
Mack had walked through their ranks
there was an inextrica BILE mass of cabs,
trucks, electric cars and struggling hui
manity in the middle of Forty second
street. Mrs. Mack. very flushed and
very angry, was the center of the
vortex.
Motornen changed their bells, but did
not dare start their cars, drivers swOre
and horses danced on their hind legs
while the mass swayed and struggled.
Finally, Mrs. Mack got across the street
and into the cab.
.'Drive me away from these people;
I want to go to a hotel" cried the
woman, and Matty BOlIer started down
Park avenue at a gallop, with other
cabs in pursuit, and men and boys
chasing along the sidewalks. After ta-
ing a long, roundabout course, the
driver stopped at an uptown hotel,
where Mrs. Mack attempted to register
as Mrs Ross, of Buffalo,
Is Refused q Room.
A room was refused her. and re-en-
tering the cab, she was driven to the
Forty-ninth street hotel. where she
spent the night.
When Mrs. Mack left the prison in
the morning she caught a train which
connected with the Metropolitan ex-
press, due at the Grand Central station
at 5:19 p. m. She carried a small tin
trunk and a pasteboard box containing
luncheon in one hand and in the other
a valise. She occupied the last seat in
the third day coach of the express.
Coming down the river she passed
Sing Sing prison where Thorn, her
paramour and partner in crime paid
his penalty in the electric chair, but
ii the walls of the prison recalled any
unpleasant thoughts the somewhat
stolid face of the woman did not be-
tray it. Until One Hundred and Twen-
+v-fifth street was reached only three
nersons on the train knew of her iden-
tity.
One of the trainmen entered into con-
versation with her in German and told
her that he had attended her trial in
the Long Island City court house in
November, 1898, and had made a pencil
sketch of her. This interested her and
cba chatted quite freely with him