= NAGK whom.
,New York’s Latest Sensation
Appears to Have Been Solved.
SOME DAMAGING EVIDENCE.
lirs. Nack Bought the Telltale Oil-
cloth In Astoria, N. Y.
HER SPOUSE WORKED THERE.
l‘he Gradual Unraveling of a Mys-
terious Homicide.
The Inner Life of Those Concerned In
the Great Tragedy—A Woman Who Was
Unfaithful First to Her Husband and
Then to the Man For-Whom She Had
Betrayed Him—A Ruse by Which She
Discovered the Perfldy of Her Second
Lover, Whose Mutilated Remains Were
Found a Couple of Days Later—The Un-
qualified Identification of the Faithless
Spouse as the Purchaser of the Queer
Oilcloth In \Vhich the Two Sections of
the Victim’s Body \Vere Wrapped.
New York, July 1.—The police are
slowly closing up their lines on the
great "headless body” mystery, and they
believe they now have two of those
concerned in it in their custody.
Hermann Nack, the husband of the
woman with whom William Gulden-
suppe has lived for some time at 439
\Tinth avenue, was arrested at Ninth
avenue and Fortieth street today by
central office detectives.
He did not show great surprise when
arrested, and the detectives started with
him immediately for headquarters.
They would make no statement about
their prisoner and would allow no one
to see him. ' U .
In the station house Nack, after ad-
mitting his identity, said:
_ “I have absolutely no idea why I have
been arrested. I am sure I had no part
in the death of this man Guldensuppe.
In fact, I cared nothing about him, one
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way or the other. I knew my wife was
living with him, but that made no dif-
ference to me. I quit her a long time
ago and never gave a thought to her.
“We had several children, but they
are all dead. Since I left my wife I
have met her several times in storOs
where I delivered bread. I always
spoke to her, and we had no quarrels.
We 'were both satisfied to be rid Of each
other.”
After making this statement Nack
was taken to police headquarters.
Another important matter that came
out was the identification of Mrs. Nack
as the woman who on ‘Wednesday last
purchased some Oilcloth of the pattern
in which the two parts of the mutilat—
ed body were wrapped.
The purchase was made in Astoria
at the store of Max Riger, at Jackson
avenue and Jane street. Mrs. Riger
and a customer were in the store at the
time, and Mrs. Riger says that a wom-
an entered and asked hurriedly if she
had any table oilclotli. She says that she
showed the woman a. small roll of the
Diamond B pattern and that the stran—
ger took 4%. yards of this.
Strong Circumstantial Evidence.
It is said that she then asked for some
white ticking and that she bought six
yards Of stuff that looked very much
like cheesecloth. .
Mrs. Riger gave the information to
the police, and when Mrs. Nack was
taken to police headquarters today Mrs.
Riger was sent for immediately. ,
She came to this city in company with
the customer who was? in the store at
the time of the purchase of the oilcloth,
and it was said that both of them posi-
tively identified Mrs. Nack as the pur-
chaser, It is known that Mrs. "Riger.
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- This furnishes a most important clew
which the police are using to trace out
the crime. The purchase of the telltale
oilcloth in the Astoria store, the rest-
dence of “"23: in Astoria, the evidence
that a we, "‘iize his bakery cart was
driven acrcn. .hc Greenpoint ferry Sat-
urday afternoon with two mysterious
bundles in it, and the belief of the de-
tectives that the body was partly muti-
lated out of revenge, are now‘recalled.
In support Of the police theory that
Guldensuppe was murdered on Long
Island some important details were giv-
en out at the Murray Hill baths this
afternoon. ‘
Several of the attendants remember
that on Thursday evening there was a
telephone call for Guldensuppe, and aft-
er he had held a few minutes’ conver-
sation over the wire he told his com-
panions that a woman he knew over in
Long Island had called him up and
asked him to meet her there on the
marrow. He said that either he or she
was going to buy a house over there.
His friends chaffed him a. good deal
about the Long Island woman.
Mrs. Nack Ready to Move.
Guldensuppe telephoned 'soon afteI
the incident to Alfred Eatze, who acted
as his substitute, to do duty for him on
the Friday, as he was going to be busy
on Long Island.
It was understood when Guldensuppe
left the baths Friday morning at 3
o’clock that he was going to Long Is-
land and would not return to work un-
til Saturday evening.
When Luzccuves Price and O’Dono-
husband had afterward become fast
«morgue was noticed simply by accident,
. the driver Of a. bakery wagon.
hue called at Mrs.. Nack’s flat early'
this morning, they found ”the place in
great disorder and the furniture evi-
dently packed for a hasty removal.
Mrs. Nack was passing the night with
a. Mrs. Stewart, who occupies apart-
ments on an upper floor.
They asked her what had become of
William Guldensuppe, and she told a
number of contradictory stories, and
seemed greatly confused.
She said “her man” hadgone to live
with a Mrs. Cunningham, who kept a
grocery store somewhere. '
“This woman and three men called
at my house at different times,” she
said. “One man brought a. note writ—
ten in German, asking that I give up
William’s clothes, but I did not know
the handwriting, which was said to be
his. I did not give up the clothes. Two
men afterward called and threatened
so much that I gave them Gulden-
suppe’s clothes. After that Mrs. “Cun-
ningham came and she, too, wanted the
clothes. I gave her a bit of my mind,
and told her she had stolen William
from me.”_
Detectives who watched Mrs. Nack’s
house the whole Of yesterday declare
that nobody visited her.
Mrs. Cunningham, who lives at 21
Bedford street, was seen and indignant-
ly denied having visited Mrs. Nack’s
house or having seen anything of Gul-
densuppe for many months.
Mrs. Nack was questioned as to the
quarrels between her husband, her for-
mer boarder and Guldensuppe, and she
admitted that the boarder, whom she
called Fred, had once attempted to shoot
Guldensuppe and that Fred and her
friends.
In explanation of her household goods
being packed, she said that she was go-
ing to Europe in a day or two to visit
her mother. who was very ill.
Identity of the Victim.
Identification has been made of the
mutilated body, one part of which was
found in the East river and the other
in the woods at High bridge. This time
the identification is made more posi-
tiV’ely than ever before. Four men vis—
ited the morgue today, and after look-
ing at the trunk and examining the
hand they declared unhesitatingly that
the murdered man was William Gul-
densuppe, a rubber in the Murray Hill
Turkish baths, in Forty-second street.
The men were William McFee, James
Hand and Alfred Sinker, attendants at
the baths, and Dr. J. S. Crosby of 215
West Forty—fourth street. They said
they knew the body was that of Gul-
densuppe because of physical peculiari-
ties and the scar on the index finger of
the left hand.
The men who said they identified the
body had seen Guldensuppe naked, or
almost so, daily for several years. They
recognized, they said, certain pecul-
iarities about the body which were so
singular as to convince them. One was
the extraordinary length of the trunk
and depth of the chest. Guldensuppe,
they said, was of powerful frame, long
armed, short legged and long bodied.
He was 5 feet 8 inches in height, or
two inches shorter than the normal
measurement, according to the span of
the arms. And he had a tattoo mark
on his chest.
At the Murray Hill baths today Man:
ager William Schellenberg said that
Guldensuppe had asked. to be excused
from working on Friday night, saying
he had an engagement. Upon Gulden-
suppe’s promise to report for duty on
Saturday morning the manager grant-
ed his request.
Discovered by Accident.
The resemblance between the body “of
Guldensuppe and the body at the
and after the detectives had almost
given up hope of finding who the mur-
dered man was. A man who had seen
the ~body at the morgue went to the
Murray Hill establishment to take a
bath.
While there he discussed the murder
with an attendant and commented up-
on the marks on the body. The attend-
ant said lightly that one Of the bath
rubbers had been away since Friday
night, and perhaps was the victim. A
further discussion of the marks on the
body roused the attendant’s curiosity.
He told some of his companions, and
later the.superintendent. This caused
the visits to the morgue.
The detectives, in investigating to—
day, ran across two boys, Joseph Riley
of 407 West Thirty-fifth street and John
Hinchey of 419 West Thirty-fifth street.
They told the detectives that while
they were standing at Ninth avenue
and Thirty—fifth street at 1:30 o’clock
yesterday afternoon a man came up
hurriedly and asked them if they want-
ed to make a tip. He gave them a note
to take to Mrs. Nack.
Hinchey took it to the woman, and
he says that she immediately began to
pack a valise. She gave the valise to
the boy after she had packed it, and
he took it down to the man on the cor-
ner, who at once walked rapidly down
Thirty~fifth street toward Tenth av—
enue. The boys say that he seemed
much agitated.
The man‘ was described by the boys
as being stout, about 5 feet 8 inches
tall, with a. sandy mustache, and wear-
ing dark blue clothes, russet shoes and
a derby hat.
The police of Jersey City arrested a.
man today 'whose arms and clothes
were covered with dried blood, a cir-
cumstance which he could not explain
satisfactorily. The police held the man
to await developments.
The prisoner is an Italian, apparently
about 35 years old. Sergeant Wade of
the Gregory Street Police station found
him wandering about Newark avenue
between 3 and 4 o’clock this morning.
He .was plied with questions, but still
protested his ignorance of English. He
was locked up. Failing to give a sat—
isfactory account of himself to Police
Justice Potts today he was held until
inquiries could be made concerning him.
The Husband and “Fred.” .
Nack is, as has already been stated,
For a
long time he Worked for a baker in this
city, but recently he has been driving
a. wagon for a man who keeps a. store
in Astoria. . . “
The wagon he drives is similar .to the
one discovered by reporters, which
came over on a Greenpoint ferryboat
on Saturday half an hour before the
first section of the mutilated body was
found in the East river.
The police are satisfied now, as they
were yesterday, that in this wagon
were the two bundles, the finding of
which gave the first clews to the awful
crime.
Until four years ago the Nacks, hus—
band and wife—for there were no (hil-x
dren—lived‘a seemingly happy life. At.
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TH E E vE N LNG GAZ E T TE
that Time a boarder in the person of
the mysterious Fred appeared at the
home, and odd stories were told about
the conduct of the boarder and Nack’s
wife. . _
Whether these stories reached the
ears of the husband has not as yet ap-
peared, but when some time’later Gui-r
densuppe appeared on the scene as a
friend of the husband and a friend of
Fred the scandal grew, and the.» home,
from one of happiness, became the
scene of strife and turmoil.
Fred, so the story runs, quickly
found that Guldensuppe had supplant-
ed him in the woman’s affections and
retired from the field. .
The injured husband was not long in
following. The couple had a quarrel
about three years ago, and then he left
her, vowing never to darken the door
again.
Husband and Lover Friends.
He went out into the world without
a. wife or a home, and then the strange
thing happened.
Husband and . Fred became more
friendly than ever. They were seen to-
gether time and time again.
Several times they met Guldensuppe
on the street and in liquor stores, and
on each occasion there was a quarrel.
' At one of these meetings Fred is
known to have drawn a pistol and was
with difi‘iculty restrained from shooting
his rival. He, so the story says, threat-
med ré‘v'enge, while the injurédhusband
openly boasted that the day would come
when the man who, he claimed, had
wrecked his household would have a.
long reckoning to pay.
Nack did‘ not seem to blame Fred for
anything. Perhaps the one purpose
which they had in common—revenge—
drew them closer to each other.
As for Guldensuppe, he merely laugh-
ed at their threats. He was big and
powerful and trained as fine as an ath-
lete. ‘
The other men were not in his class
from a physical standpoint and there-
fore he feared them not.
So it was that when Nack left his
wife after a quarrel Guldensuppe made
no secret Of his attentions to the woman.
He visited her daily and finally 18
months ago he took up his abode at
her home.
At that time the Nacks lived at 629
Ninth avenue, over a delicatessen store
kept by a Mrs. Richel, and she tells
now of the quarrel between the wife
and husband.
Shortly after the latter left Mrs.
Nack with Guldensuppe moved to 439
on the same avenue, where she‘ is now
living, and there the two lived as man
and wife until Thursday morning last.
In the past month or so Mrs. Nack
had noticed a change in Guldensuppe’s
demeanor toward her.
~His affections seemed to be waning.
Mrs. Nack’s Suspicious Confirmed.
She shadowed him, but while her sus-
picions increased as time wore on, she
found nothing to make her believe that
he would desert her.
Guldensuppe worked in the bathhouse
at night and slept at her home during
the day.
He slept there Thursday morning
after coming home from work, and in
the afternoon he was up reading a pa-
per when a woman called.
She was a friend of Mrs. Nack. The
police have this woman’s name and ad-
dress. '
During the visit Of this woman Mrs.
Nack had occasion to go into the kitch—
en, but from the. latter place she was
able _to see everything that transpired
in the sitting room.
She discovered that immediately after
she had left the sitting room Gulden-
suppe stepped over to the other woman
and held a short, whispered conversa—
tion with her.
At the same time the woman handed
him a card, which he placed in his
pocket. ’
Then he stepped back to the place
where he had been sitting, andwhen
Mrs. Nack returned to the room her
woman friend was sitting as demure
as possible, while Guldensuppe was
carelessly glancing at the paper.
Mrs. Nack did .not pretend that she
had seen anything unusual. She Chat-
ted pleasantly with her friend, and
when she was ready to leave kissed her.
She waited until she heard the sound
of the hall door closing behind her vis-
itor,.and then, turning like a fury, she
faced Guldensuppe and hurled denun-
ciation after denunciation upon his
head.
“A Woman Scorned.”
All of the woman’s nature changed.
She upbraided him for transferring his
affections to another, and in the midst
of it all Guldensuppe prepared to leave
her forever. ' , .
She was still in her fury when the
man, who scarcely dared make a retort,
stole away from her presence.
Mrs. Nack tells two stories of when
and how she came to see Guldensuppe
afterward.
Her first story was that he called on
her again that day and demanded that
she give him $50 which he knew she
had taken from the bank that day.
Her second story is that he did not
call on her after the quarrel until Fri-
day about noon, when he demanded
and she did give him the $50.~
She added that she did not see him
later, although she was positive that
he had worked at the bathhouse On
Friday.
This latter part of the story is cer-
tainly not true, for Guldensuppe did
not work on Friday. After leaving her
on Thursday he went straight to the
bathhouse and worked there until 2
o'clock Friday morning.
The police have not ,as yet discovered
any one who saw him after that hour,
when the mystery surrounding his dis-
appearance begins.
One fact is certain—that William
Guldensuppe did not live many hours
after he left that Turkish bathhouse.
He must have been enticed to some
house where he was insta‘ntly stabbed
to the heart.
Mysterious Telegrams.
It has just been learned that Mrs.
Nack received a telegram on Saturday
morning which was sent from the
Western Union station at Thirty-eighth
street and Eighth avenue.
The message was delivered by mes-
senger boy No. 2,005 and consisted of 15
words in German, with no signature.
It is supposed this telegram was from
Mrs. Nack‘s other paramour.
Another telegram was sent from the
same station on Saturday to the Nack
house. .
It was addressed to a man named
Johnson, but the messenger boy
brought it back because no man of
that name could be found at the ad-
dress.
The contents of the telegrams will
not be revealed by the Western Union
company.
' From all Other Sources -' - .' - -
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THE ' MUTUAL ,IPE + [nuance [10. f *
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CF NE W‘ YORK.
RIcHARD A. McGURDY, President.
Statement lur'lhe Year "Ending December 3I‘sl, Isl.
According to the Standard of the Insurance Department of the State of New York.
_|NCOME,
Received for Premiums - - - _
8 39.593.414 26
IO,IOO,28| O]
s mfi'm1
. DISBURSEMENTS,
To Policy-holders for Olaims by Death
To Policy-holders for-Endowments, Dividends, elc. - - -
For all Other lccounls - -. - 4 - . ~
ASSETS.
Oniled Slates Bonds and other Securities - - - -
First lien Loans on Bond and Mortgage - - -
Loans on Stocks and Bonds - - - - .
Real Estate ' - - - p - — . ’
Oash in Banks and Trust Oompanies - - _ - - .
Accrued Interest, Net Deferred Premiums, elc- - - -
s I2,595,|l3 39
I2.842.45.6 u
lO,‘lOl,OO5 64
———*-—_— .
$36,2l8,515 l4
6 l I O,|25,00Z 14
1|,543,929
ll,09l,525 00?
22,161,666 60
l2,680,390 oo
6 NIH—{4,116— Ta
206,616.633 12
6 29,133,514 17)
S 9l8.698.338 45
Reserve for Policies and other Liabilities - - -
*Surplus - - - - - - . . .
Insurance and Annuities in force - . .
I have carefully examined the faregoing Statement and find the same to be correct
liabilities calculated by the Insurance Department CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor.‘
From the Surplus a dividend will be apportioned as usual
Report of the Examining Commitlc e
Office of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York
To THE HONORABLE, THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF
THE MUTUAL LIFE IISIIBMIOE COMPANY OF MEN YORK
The undersigned, a Committee apppointed by your honorable body on the twenty-
third day of- December, I 896, to examine the Annual Statement of the Company, an a.
verify the same, respectfully
REE-PORT
. That, pursuant to the power and authority thereby conferred, the Committee have at various dates between. - ate of the
said reference and the date cf this Report attended at the Office Of the Company, and have been waited on by the freasurer,
the Comptroller, the Auditor and and the Cashier, together With the the respective aSSIStants of such officers, and have care-
fully gone over all the itemscontamed 1n the said Statement, and have found the same to be correct. They have Examined
and counted every certificate of stock2 bond and other Obligation held by the Company, and compared the price at which the
same are carried in said Statement With the market quotations and find the same not exceeding such QUOtations—in fact, in
many cases below them. They have examined and counted the bonds and mortgages on real property held by the Company,
and find the same to be as stated. They have also verified the valuations of the Company’s holdings of real estate and have
verified the deposits of money in the various banks and trust companies, and have counted the cash on hand held by the
Caslxird the Committee certify that all the books, papers. documents and evidences of title of “I“? description necessary in
such examination have been freely submitted to the Committee by the said officers and their aSSIstants, and that the same are
accurate, in good order and well kept. . . .-
And the Committee further certify that the Investments of the Company are of a high order, and that the system and
methods adopted by the Company In recording Its transactions and caring for the assets are entitled to commendation
' h ' ectfully submitted ROBERT OLYPHANT 'J. HOBART HE '
A“ °fWh1° ‘5 “SP JAMES N. JARVIE CHARLES D. legiicEEii, JR.
NEW YORK. JANUARr25, 1897. JAMES 0- HOLDEN CHARLES R. HENDERSON
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The company has issued an order whereby women can be insured without the extra
charge heretofore required. More definite information on the subject will be furnished by
the Ideal agent, Mr. A H. Camp, « - . .
Board. of Trustees
GEORGE G. HAVEN
ADRIAN ISELIN JR: .
GEORGE S. BOWDOIN
THEO. A. HAVEMEYER
WILLIAM C. WHITNEY
WILLIAM ROCKEEELLER
JAMES N. JABVIE
CHAS D. DICKEY JR.
ELBRIDGE T. GERRI
HENRY H. ROGERS .
JNO. W, AUCHINCLOSS
THEODORE MOREORD
WILLIAM BABCOCK
STUYVESANT FISH
AUGUSTUS D. J UILLIARD
CHARLES E. MILLER
WALTER R. GILLETTE
H. WALTER ‘WEBB
.FREDERIC CROMWELL
JULIEN T. DAVIES
ROBERT SEWELL
S, V. R. CRUGER
CHARLES R. HENDERSON
RUFUS W. PECHHAM
J. HOBART HERRICK
WM P_ DIXON
ROBERT A. GRANNISS
— ROBERT AGRANNISS Vice-President.
. . WALTER R. GILLETTE,.General Manager.
ISAAC F. LLOYD, 2d Vice-President. ELEEEETEKBEfigA)§fiIRkCariaspogding Secretary
.‘EASTON Secretar . ' . ssis nt ecre .
WILLIAM J , . ’ y EREDERIC CROMWELL, Treasurer. ’ my
JOHN A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer. JAMES TIMPSON. 2d Assistant Treasurer.
WILLIAM P, SANDS, Cashier. EDWARD P. HOLDEN, Assistant Cashier.
-. JOHN TATLOCK, JR , Assistant Actuary.
CHARLES A, PRELLER, Auditor. . WILLIAM W. RICHARDS, Comptroller.
(‘. CLIFFORD GRETSINGER, Assistant Auditor. HENRY S. BROWN, Assistant Comptroller
JOHN C. ELLIOT, Superintendent of Domestic Agencies. -
EDWARD LYMAN SHORT, General Solicitor.
MEDICAL DIRECTORS:
ELIAS J- MARSH, m. D' GRANVILLE,M.;WHITE, M 3
SAMUEL D, BABCOCK
RICHARD A. MGCURDY
JAMES C. HOLDEN
HERMANN C. VON POST
LEWIS MAY
OLIVER HARRIMAN
ROBERT OLYPHAN'I
GEORGE F. BAKER
DUDLEY OLCOTT
GUSTAVUS s. WINSTON, M. D.
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