SENSATIONAL MURDER CASE

Evening Star, Issue 10398, 20 August 1897, Page 3

SENSATIONAL MURDER CASE

A mysterious murder has excited considerable eenaation in New York. The trunk of a man so disfigured as to remove ■the means of identification was found on * June 26 several miles from other portions of the body, wlriih were being discovered daily in the river and elsewhere. The head was missing. The fragments were wrapped in a peculiar rad oilcloth, which it was ascertained was bought by the wife of a baker named Mack, who was living with William Guldensnppe, an employe in Crosby’s fashionable baths. It was quickly seen that a deliberate murder had been committed. The victim, it was asoertainedj was the man Guldensnppe, and hia death is supposed to be due to the jealousy of the woman’s husband. Until , four years ago Mack and his wife lived happily together, when Mack brought a friend, whom ho called Fred, to hoard with him. Mrs Mack became enamored of him. Later, another friend of the two men, Guldensnppe, then appeared on the scene. The woman transferred her affections to him, and Fred and the husband, finding themselves supplanted, left the field to Guldensnppe. It is supposed that the latter was killed and his body cut up by these two ont of revenge. Guldensnppe, who was powerfully built and an athlete, had been a sailor. He had the figure of a voraan tattooed on his chest, and as he worked in the bath almost nude many saw the marks and thus identified the remains. Mrs Mack and her husband have both been arrested,