Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1897 — TO DIE FOR HIS CRIME. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TO DIE FOR HIS CRIME.

Martin Thorn to Be Electrocuted Tor the Murder of Guldcnsuppe. Martin Thorn, on trial in Long Island for the brutal murder of William Guldensuppe, was found guilty by the jury and

will die In the electric chair. Mrs. Nack, his accomplice, will, it la said, plead guilty and may be given twenty years in prison. Thom, a barber, -loved Mrs. Nack, a midwife who in turn had deserted her husband for William Guldensuppe, a bath attendant. So fn this tragedy three men have Been mined by a woman

ruined herself long before she met one of them. The husband betrayed, Guldensuppe murdered, Thom to be electrocuted. She lives. Guldcnsuppe was in the way of Thom, and the Nack woman had tired of him as well. Guldensuppe blacked the eye of Thom and kicked him downstairs. The Nack woman held out her arms and Thorn returned. He talked of queer things and revenge on the bath man. The woman lured Guldensuppe on June 25 to a cottage at Woodside which she and Thom had rented. Guldensuppe entered while the woman lingered in the yard. Thom killed him; and over his dead body Nack and Thom worked severing the parts. These were scattered in the river. The police found some of them. Clews to the murderers were few. Thom afterward talked to a barber, one Gotha. He told him what he had done, tbe deed of the Woodside cottage. Gotha kept silent for weeks. Then he spoke, and to the police. The Nack woman and Thom were arrested, the woman defying the police and never revealing her secret until ten days ago, when She told jt on the stand and accused Thom of the murder itself. Then Thom accused her of the crime under oath. He made a socalled confession. The jury did not believe him.

MARTIN THORN.