Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-20
MRS. MACK NOW
FREE FROM PRISON

not notice. She seemed almost to enjoy
the curiosity she had aroused.
Il am glad to be out she said. II spent
saw up pa IN nre awn Su'
made some friends there. l am coming
back to my own city, and although there
ries 1 shall make new friends and 1 hope,
forget the past. 1t will not be easy, 1
know. but nothing that is worth while is
easy.
No Money, No Friends.
Il am not well off. 1 have no money.
have no friends, except a few, perhaps, in
New Jersey. Maybe 1 shall go to them;
probably shall not. 1 am going to get a
job as housekeeper or a cook. Then l am
going to work and try to live down all that
has gone before. l suppose l shall find
things a great deal different than they
were when was free in New York before.
l hope people will not remember me. do
not ike to be pointed out as one to be
stared att
Questioned about the remarkable crime
to which she confessed having been a prin-
cipal. she pressed her lips together and
looked out the window. Later she denied
that she was Mrs. Mack. When a group of
newspaper reporters and artists confronted
the New York Central, at $50 o'clock, she
smiled affably and answered their queries
with
Il am not this woman you are looking
for. Who is she? l forget. Oh Mrs.
Nack-what old she do? No, you have
spoken to the wrong woman. l never heard
You can't fool me. l hate newspapers and
shall not say anything to them
But IT, re are some here" 1t was OBJ
ing your trial for murder"
"Oh, you do? Wei, 1 am not the same
woman. tel you I am not Mrs. Mack at
New York to make a living and l do not
EXPECT to have my history pried into at
ALL"
Word that Mrs. Mack was on the Metro
politan express had spread through the
Grand Central station. and when she
passed through the gate she was con-
fronted by crowd. She brushed aside
newspaper men and held her head high as
she disdained to notice any of the curious
persons With her little prison trunk her
valise and parcel. she stopped at the en-
trance to the station and looked inquiringly
at three persons two women and man,
who elbowed their way up to her.
She Repudiates Them.
I'VE friends of yours; you must re-
member u.s. they said I'VE have come
to help you If we can.
After gazing at them keenly for mo-
ment she shook her head and exclaimed
that she had no friends Then she made
ed by growing crowd, and took a stand
against one of the walls. 1t was while
she was standing here, pressed round by
thick crowd that policemen came to her
assistance Her trip in a cab through the
Murray Hill district and through stretch
of the Tenderloin was lively one and
when 1t ended the woman, whose nerve
astonished the community when she was
tried for murder and whose courage SEEM
ed equally strong during most of yester-
day, was apparently on the verge of COL
lapse.
In June, 1897, Guldensuppe q bath rub
Der, with whom Mrs. Mack a midwife who
lived at No 439 9th avenue was infatuated.
disappeared. His dsme mbered body was
found a short time later in the East river
and on Long Island. Mrs. Mack was ar
rested. and Martin Thorn, a barber, who
had formed an attachment for Guldensuppe
and who feared him, was arrested short
time later. 1t was developed from con-
fessons and from discoveries by thu po-
lice that Mrs. Mack and Thorn had lured
Guldensuppe to cottage in Woodside,
L. l., where he was murdered and cut up.
Few murder cases in the last generation
have attracted more attention. Thorn was
executed in Sing Sing prison August /,
1898. Mrs. Mack pleaded guilty to man
slaughter in the first degree and was sem
fenced in January. 1898, to fifteen years in
Auburn prison. Good behavior shortened
her term to nine years and eleven months.