New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-20
MRS. MACK FREE AGAIN
SEEKS TO DODGE PUBLIC.
Accomplice of GuIdensuppe Mur-
derer out for Good Conduct.

Mrs Augustus Mack who was sentenced to ff-
teen years in Auburn prison after she had pleaded
guilty TO manslaughter in the first degree in con-
nection with the death Of William Guldensuppe
was released yesterday morning. Through good be-
havor she had succeeded in cutting off a third Of
the sentence. Mrs. Mack started Immediately for
Syracuse. where she took the Metropolitan Ex-
press leaving that city for New York at 1858 a m
The pale woman, with a worried look who tried
TO struggle away to obscurity from the thTorg OF
reporters and photographers which massed about
her as she made her from the trainshed on
the arrival of the Metropolitan Express at the
Grand Central Station yesterday afternoon, denied
again and again that she was the object OF their
quest.
She protested that she not Mrs Mack. but
when of her eager interviewers asked her II
she would not make short statement to the pub
lie she asked in a voice shT with Indignation,
What shall l say? Shall l scream? SHAH L
scream" With a solid revolving circle of men
and women about her, the woman finally made her
way across the street to the Grand Union Hotel
and took refuge in a hanson, which was driven
rapidly down toward Fourth avenue, after she had
told the driver that she would give him the destl-
nation her way.
Despite her denias the officials said that the
woman was Mrs Mack and that she had talked
freely enough until the vanguard of New York re-
porters had swooped down on the train at Pough-
keepse. The plain black dress she wore was re-
lieved only by a meaEre amount Of cheap white
lace Over the sailOr-shaped gray hat trimmed with
a small bunch of flowers she wore dotted black
veil
on the way down from Poughkeepsie the woman
protested again and again that she was not MIS-.
Mack, and begged 10 De let Httut hIilNth at mo
station she was met by woman triehu, WIN
whom however. she exchanged only n mere word
of recognition. In her haste to get away from inc
The woman who came in on the Metropolitan
Yesterday had changed considerably In appearance
since she was last in New York City. Ihat was IN
January 1898 During her imprisonment she had
lost much in weight, and her face had palhd look
and lacked the tone of defiant stolidty which char
acterzed it during the trial of herself ana Maruh
Thorn for the murder OF the Turkish bath fuo-
her. Her black hair is streaked with gray ouI It
IF fla
Thorn TO the electric chair She carried TWO small
travelling bags and a small tin box, IN "hlch sIe
had brought her luncheon from the prison
Mrs. Mack spoke bitterly OF the New 1oiA ~ go
and the part the reporters had in houndlns her
into prison. She said, once finding heIstm ehe e
however she resigned herself to the inevitao'e ana
set out to be a model prisoner, to get on as much
time as she could. For the present she said ehe
would take refuge with friends in New Jersey
until she could ind employment as cook or
So far ms she knew. she said, her husband was
dead but even If he were living. she wanted Moth
Ing 10 do with him. The woman was evidently
sincere when she said she wanted no moro news
paper notoriety and wished TO DO Forgotten oy tho
public. -
William Guldensuppe was murdered on June p,
1897, in a cottage at Woodside. Long Islanu, -
which he was luTed by Mrs. Mack, ne was ii Iuo
bnr employed In the Murray Hill Baths. IN west
42d street and lived with the Nacks In Ninth ave
rue where he had been in the way Of being a
star boarder" until Mrs. Mack made the &C
qualntance OF Martin Thorn, barber. For vaTi-
Gus reasons tho twain found 1t convenient 70 get
CuldenR,lppe out OF the way, and with that pur-
pose in view hired the cottage at Woodside. Thorn
shot tho rnasseur as no was passing through dark
hallway With Mrs. Nacks assistance he dragged
the body the bathroom.
The woman then went away. but Thorn re-
NAMED and carved the body TO pieces The next
iav she returned. and tho two took the dlsmern-
hered body in several bundles and disposed OF them
IN various places Tho parts OF the body were
wrapped IN oilCloth
With tho exception of the head which has never
been found. these bundles were discovered severa!
deys later and identified Mrs. Nack's arrest led
that OF Thorn.
on tho advice OF her counsel. Emanuel Friend
the woman turned stats's evidence. Just after she
had completed the telling OF her story one Of the
Jurors was taken III. and second trial was the re-
suit. This conducted rapidly, and Thorn was
sentenced 10 the electric chair and Mrs Mack 10
fifteen years IN Auburn. Thorn's lawyers appealed,
but his conviction affirmed. and Governor
Black refused TO interfere