Norwalk gazette, Friday, July 9, 1897 · page 6

 

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True Bills For Murder Found Against
Thorn and Mrs. Nack.

SEARCH FOR MISSING HEAD.

New York Police Asents Dragging River
For the Last Link of Evidence In
the Gnldensuppe Case—The
Recent Developments.

New York, July 9.—The grand jury
this afternoon foundindictments against
Mrs. Nack and Martin Thorn charging
them with murder in the first degree.

Several agents of the police began
today their search for the head Of Wil-
liam Guldensuppe, the murdered Turk-
ish bath rubber. Ever since the crime
was committed they have realized that
the findipg of the severed head was the
only thing wanting to establish beyond
all doubt the identity of the murdered
man, and they also believe thatgits dis-
covery would do much toward fastening
the crime upon the barber and woman
who are now under arrest charged with
the murder.

The detective department, utterly at
sea as to where to look for it, was in-
formed that it was thrown into the East
river, and the detectives at once made
arrangements for dragging the river.
According to the story told to the lice
it was dropped into the river fr a
ferryboat. As the head was incased in
plaster of paris it must have sunk to
the bottom at once. So the police de-
cided to drag the river along the route
of the ferry, beginning near the Tenth
street landing and going up to Thirty-
flfth street. Four launches were sent
to that point today.

In these four launches, armed with
grappling hooks, were four expert grap-
plers—Patrick and Joseph Ridley.
Charles ”Winney and Andrew Latham.
The malice were confident that they
would sh the head out of the river ul-
timately, but it was said that the work
might last. for a week.

The launches were in charge of
Boundsmen W. J. McCarthy, Kinne—
more and McCormick, and Patrolman
O’Connor. Distributed in the different
boats were 25 policemen. The grap-
plers worked in vain through the early
morning, and at 10 o’clock the Patrol,
in charge of Captain Schultz, left pier
A and proceeded up the East river.
Schultz took charge Of the grappling
fleet. On his boat also were an expert
grappler and a number of policemen.

The first discovery the grapplers
made was that of a coat brought up
from the bed Of the river above East
Tenth street. The police did not think
that the coat had any connection with
the case.

A Quick Find.

It developed today that the part of the
trunk of the body which was thrown
into the East river was picked up in
less than 15 minutes after it had been
dropped into the water. The barber,
Gartha, who has made affidavit to his
statement to Acting Inspector O’Brien
that Thorn confessed to him that he
was the murderer of Guldensuppe and
told him the story of the crime, de-
clares that Thorn told him that he
dropped the body into the river from
the stern of aGreenpOint ferryboat just
as she was approaching her slip at the
foot of East Tenth street on the after-
noon Of the murder.

Thorn, according to the affidavit of
Gartha, said that he had made a bad
job of the whole thing. Thorn declared
that he ought to have incased every
dismembered portion of the body in
plaster of paris, so that, like the head,
it would have immediately sunk.
Thorn also said that he ought to have
inspected the sewerage of the VVOOdside
house, so that he could have taken pre-
cautions against any traces of blood
flowing through the drain across the
road.

He said that had he not been both-
ered by the woman he would have done
the job better. It was also reported to-
day that the police now had in their
possession the pawn tickets for Gulden-
suppe’s watch and chain, which Thorn
admitted to his friend he had pawned
after murdering the rubber.

Detective Sam Price called at the
barber shop where Gartha worked, at
2335 Eighth avenue, and received from
the foreman a mysterious looking pack-
age which Martinelli, the proprietor of
the shop, had left there for him. The
package was about 3 inches square and
a quarter of an inch thick. The de-
tective would not tell what it contain—
ed, but the barber who works at the
chair next to Gartha’s chair said that
the pawn Tickets were in the package
and that-Thorn had given them to
Qartha the last time he was in the
shop.

Strengthening the Proofs.

While the police are now confident
that they have fastenedthe murder of
Guldensuppe upon the"right persons,
they are nevertheless making every ef-
fort to strengthen the proofs now in
their possession. Several detectives
were down at Woodside today looking
through the. house which Thorn and
Mrs. Nack rented and in which the
murder was committed. They are anx-
ipus to find; 13.3 saw which Thorn, Gar-
tha said, ‘ ' led after having cut up
Guldensuz:.2e’s body with it, and they
Would also like to find the razor with
which Thorn confessed he cut the bath
rubbcz’s throat.

The detectives; found a bullet imbed-
tied it. the wainscr-ting of one of the
3pm: rooms in the house. The fact
th:.t the bullet had not penetrated
deeply into the soft wood led them to
believe that its force was spent when
it struck the wainscoting, and they
were confident that the bullet was the
one which was discharged at Gulden-
suppe.

When Thorn was first taken to police
headquarters he was stripped, and on
his undershirt were discovered several
spots of blood. According to the story
which Gartha says Thorn told him,
Thorn had on only his underclothing
when he killed Guldensuppe.

Thorn was still at police headquarters
today, and was apparently as cool and
imperturbable as ever. Acting Inspect-
or O’Brien said, however, that he ex—
pected that the prisoner would weaken
and tell the whole story to the district
attorney. O’Brien said also that he
would later give out the full text of
the statement Thorn made to him.

This statement, while it denies em—
phatically any knowledge of the mur-
der, reveals several things and has sev-
eral gaps
O’Brien considered very important. It

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gives a satisfactory alibi for Thorn for
all the time except that which, accord:
ing to Gartha, Thorn spent in the
Woodside house on the day of the mur-
der. It corroborates some of the state-
ments Mrs. Nack made and endeavors
to explain away several actions regard-
ed as suspicious. For instance, Thorn
admits that when, as was shown by
witnesses, Mrs. Nack was summoned
from a saloon he sent the summons.
For it, however, he gives an excuse
which O’Brien regards as particularly
unsatisfactory.
Thorn Hired the Surrey.

Thorn was identified by the owner of
the surrey today as the man who ac-
companied Mrs. Nack when the vehicle
was hired. Thorn admits hiring the
surrey with the woman, but fails to
give any good acount of his actions in
connection with it.

All the pawn tickets which the police
had represented Thorn’s own articles.
Most of the things had been pawned
under the names Morris and Miller. In
one or two instances, however, the
name given was Braun—the name gIVen
by the pair who rented the Woodside
house. One ticket the pawnbroker had
issued b Brownybut Thorn ‘in signing
the agreement on the ticket‘ to pay .25
cents for extra care had written the
name Braun.

Who’ll Try the Case?

The Nackv and Thorn murder trials
may be conducted either in this county
or in Queens county under the special
law passed some time ago to cover just
such cases. District Attorney Young of
Queens county is anxious to have the
cases tried over there, but the New,
York authorities having performed all
the work think they ought to be per—
mitted to finish it.

Martin Thorn and Mrs. Augusta Nack
will meet. for the first time since her
arrest in Jefferson Market police court
tomorrow. There will be many on hand
to study their expressions when they
are brought face to face.

Mrs. Nack knows all of Thorn’s con-
fession now and she curses him for his
folly in having made a confidant of
Barber Gartha. She realizes for the
first time how strong was the net in
whose meshes she was held fast and
those in the prison who watch her say
that she is_ on the verge of collapse.

But that wonderful nerve comes to
her aid again and she is soon as cool
and apparently as unconcerned as if
the news which the papers contained
was of the most cheering nature in-
stead of every paragraph driving a nail
into her casket.

Thorn, on the other hand, blames her
for the discovery of the murder. He
did not see the house at Woodside until
she led him to it to commit the crime.
Had be seen it first he would have
chosen another location for the bloody
work, he told the barber friend.

It was really for her sake that he
made of himself a murderer and earned
the electric chair, and out of the awful
story of horror just that one speck—his
intfituation for her—shows about the
only point of human nature in his char-
acter.

It has been demonstrated how easy
it would have been for Thorn to es-
cape. He had been going about the city
daily without any disguise except the
shaving of his mustache. But just as
the moth hovers around the flame that
ultimately destroys it, so Thorn pre-
ferred to remain here, to be near her
in her hour of danger and perhaps to
aid her if he could.

WIFE SHOT AND HAOKBD.

A Family Quarrel That May Have 3 Fa-
tal Result.

New York, July 9.——Sylvester Hardy
shot his wife, Mary, five times today at
1904 Park avenue and then struck, her a
deadly blow in the face with a hatchet.
The Hardys have had daily quarrels
for six months. Today they began to
quarrel about paying the rent. In an-
other room on the same floor lives Jere-
miah Murray. He walked into their
rooms when he heard the noise and told
Mrs. Hardy that if they were turned
out she could live in his rooms.

This enraged Hardy, and as soon as
Murray left he drew a revolver and
fired at his wife five times. She was
hit by all five bullets, in the right tem-
ple, through her collar bone, in the ab-
domen, in the breast and in her right
leg. Lena Beel, the woman's daughter,
caught Hardy’s arms and tried to spoil
his aim and called for help, but the
neighbors were afraid to help her. When
Hardy had emptied his revolver, he
picked up a hatchet and struck the wo-
man on the nose with its blunt side.
The woman fell with a groan and lay
as if dead. The girl fainted. Just then
a policeman arrived, and, covering Har-
dy with a. revolver, placed him under
arrest. An ambulance took the woman
to the Harlem hospital. She will prob—
ably die. Hardy was held in the Har-
lem court later to await the result of
her injuries. ,

Postmaster-s Appointed.

Washington, July 9. he fourth class
postmasters appointed oday were:

Pennsylvania—Aline, A. B. Markley;
Belle Valley, Josiah Graft; Bouquet, E.
M. Frye; Enon Valley, Annie Young;
Kennard, B. F. Goodrich; Lodema, T.
L. Chilcoat; Mount Pleasant Mills, J.
N. Brosius; Osborne, C. T. Campbell;
Riddles Cross Road, M. D. Britain; St.
Thomas, J. D. Gillan.

Britain’s Imperial Bonds.
London, July 9.——The Standard, edi-
torially reviewing today the visit of the
colonial premiers, disapproves any
treaty or convention for common de-
fense between the coloniegs d Great
Britain. It believes there I t a sin.
gle colony that would not proffer aid
if an occasion should arise where the

honor of England was involved.

The Spree In Tow.

Plymouth, England, July 9,—The
Hamburg—American line steamer Nor-
mannia, which arrived here, reports
having passed the North German Lloyd
steamer Spree in tow of the British
steamer Maine, heading for Queens-
town.

Pardon For Cubans.

Madrid, July 9.—The queen regent has
pardoned 108 Cubans, who have been
deported to the Spanish penal settle-
ments at Ceuta, Fernando Po and the
Chaffarine islands. The men pardoned
will be permitted to return to Cuba.

Nordica Much Better’.
London, July 9,—Mme. Lilian Nordica,
the prima donna, who has been seri-
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which Acting Inspector I, crisis is past and her condition is not

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THE MUTUAL [,er INSURANCE Ila.-

OF NEW YORK.

RICHARD A. McCU‘RDY, President.
Statement for De Year .Endint December 3lsl, I89.

According to the Standard of the Insurance Department of the State of New York.

INCOME,

Received for Premiums - -
From all Other Sources - - -

 

$ 39,593,4I4 20
I0,l08,28| 07

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- $ 49,702,695 27

DISBURSEMENTS,

To Policy-holders for Olaims by Death - - -
To Policy1holdersior Endowments, Dividends, eIc. - - - ,

For all Other Accounts - - - - - .

ASSETS.

United Slates Bonds and other Securilie - - - -

S I2,595,|I3 39
I2,842,456 II
IO,18I,OO5 64

$36,2I8,515 M

S I I O,I25,082 I4

First lien Loans on Bond and Mortgage - - - ll,543,929
Loans on Stocks and Bonds - , - - -. - II,09I,52 09
Ileal Eslaie - - - - ' - - 22,161,666 60

l2.680.390 00
6,535,555, 06

$ 234,744, 48 82
2_O_5,0IO.’633 12

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3 15133.51: 1_o
s 9I8.698.33ll 45

Back in Banks and Trust Oompanics - - - — .
Ilccrued Interest, IIcI Oeierred Premiums, eic- - -

Reserve for Policies and other Liabilities - - - . .

Surplus - - - - - -
Insurance and Annuities in force -

 

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liabilities calculated by the Insurance Department CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor.

 

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The undersigned, a Committee apppointed by your honorable body on the twentv.
third day of December, l896, to examine the Annual Statement of the Company, an A

verify the same, reSpectfully

REPORT

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JAMES N. JARVIE CHARLES D. DICKEY. JB.
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All of which is respectfully submitted

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“ WALTER R. GILLETTE, General Manager.
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JOHN A. ”FONDA, Assistant Treasurer. JAMES TIMPSON. 2d Assistant Treasurer.
WILLIAM P, SANDS, Cashier. EDWARD P. HOLDEN, Assistant Cashier.
EMORY MCCLINTOCK, Actuary. -
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CHARLES A, PRELLER, Auditor. WILLIAM W. RICHARDS, Comptroller.
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EDWARD LYMAN SHORT. General Solicitor.

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