St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-13
NURGRUSS lit MAN.
The Boston Note Broker Is
Identified IS Mr.. Sage's
ASSailant.
Many Boston Acquaintance
Positive in Asserting the
Fact,
And His Parents Sorrowfully
Conclude That Their Son
Threw the Bomb.
10 Official Identification in
New York Yet--Sage's
Pointers.

quick, who has an Office in the building
where Henry l.. NOrcroSs, the suspected
bomb-thrower, had an office. said this
morning that two weeks ago tomorrow
he went into his office. On going
ont again, shortly after, he noticed
the door of NOrcr0ss' office open.
Going to the door MI Pennycuick said:
''Why. Henry, what are you dong here
today?' NOrcrOss answered: 81 have
been writing some letters. Have you
any iron filings in your rOom?" Mr..
PennycuiCk said he had .ot, and sug
gested he would probably find some in
the room of Nh White, of the
White Elevated railroad. When asked
what he wanted the filings for he said
he wanted them for experiments. The
photograph of the head was shown to
six erscns in the building this morn
ing.
Certain and Uncertain.
-Four OF them were sure he was the
man, ard the others were equally sure
he was not. Wilton !. FaTnham, when
shown the photograph of the head,
without the slightest hesitation pro-
nounced it to Ice that of NOrcross. Mr..
Farnham" had known NOrcrOss for ten
years, and saw him last about two
weeks before The attempt on Sage'slife.
ION that OCCASION" said MIR. Farm
ham, II took occasion 10 chaff him
about his two weeks growth of beard.
! have not seen CT heard OF him since.
The girls III the factory here recognize
him very readily from his picture pub
lished this morning. Indeed, no one
knowing Henry l.. NOrcroSs can very
we'll deny that it is he"
George SanGOIn. the president of the
company, was next shown the photo
graph. After studying it closely, he
said: The lips are very much like
those OF NOrcrOss, but apart fIOm them
i should not say that this is Il likeness
Of him.
Esis Parents Are Sure.
The father and mother Of Henry L.
NOrcross are now fully convinced that
their son was the man whose insane act
in the office of Russell Sage resulted
in his death. Additional evidence
was offered them this forenoon,
which removed all doubt from
their minds. AS soon as they
have sufficiently recovered from the
shock of their sons terrible death, they
will 90 to New York and bring back the
remains for suitable burial. Mr.. Nor
cross went to his sons office this tore
noon, accompanied by Il Mr.. Sawyer
and another gentleman said to be rel
ative. The men remained in the room
for about fifteen minutes.
A reporter had brief talk with Mr..
NorcrOss, who said: Nothing was
found in his office to add anything to
what has already been told. 1t was my
son without doubt. | have no doubt
that the clothing" Here he was un-
able TO finish the sentence. The re-
porter said: There may be hopes that
the dynamiter had your sons old
clothes on" No, no; there is no
hope" was the answer.
The other TWO men would not speak
about what had been found in the room.
Il. I. White. who went in the Office,
said: MI. NOrcrOSS is satisfied that
his son was the party who tried to blow
up Mr.. Sage l was we'll acquainted
with young Norcross, and do not believe
he was dynamiteT, and will not until
see the body"
worked in Chemicals.
Reuben Nickerson, aged nineteen. the
elevator boy, was quite intimate with
NOrcross, and was almost a daily visitor
TO his Office. His last visit was week
ago Wednesday. He noticed number
Of walls about three inches long resting
on the zine. He arose. and taking one
of Them in his hand, held it
up to the light of the window.
NOrcross' back was turned at the time.
and at first he did not observe the boys
actions. Suddenly he saw the boy with
the bottle i'm bis hand. Rushing towards
him, he grabbed him by the arm and
exclaimed, Don't touch that" at
the same time taking the bottle
away from the boy and care
NIL Z 81,
OH the zinc. Young NickersOn was
much surprised, and replied: well, if
you don't want me to touch them, |
won't" Il don't want anybody to touch
them" said NOrcrOSs, who was very
pale and excited, and a minute later he
grabbed up the entire collection of bot
ties and placed them in his desk, which
was rarely used, and locked them up.
George q. Sheldon, who, for couple
of years was associated in business with
NOrcrOsS, was shown picture of the
head today. He found points of re-
semblance-the lips, the nose, and the
general shape of the face were like
those Of Norcross, but the cheeks looked
fuller, and the eyes did not seem
quite so close together. do
you know whether or not he
had typewriter and used it?''
"He did" replied Mr.. Sheldon, land
used it occasionally" The letters pre-
scented to Russell Sage by the dynamite
thrower were written on e typewriter.
Asked To describe the way in which
Mr.. NOrcrOss was dressed the last time
he saw him. MIR. Sheldon said that he
was dressed in black diagonal cutaway
coat, striped pants and Derby hat. In
speaking of his intended trip, Norcross
said thai he should leave the middle of
the week and be back by Saturday or
Sunday.
Contrary Incidents.
DR.. 4. |. Wells Jr.. dentist of this
city, knew NOrcrOsS well. In an inter-
view this afternoon he said: There is
no doubt in my mind that Norcr0sS is
the man that threw the bomb. There
are many resemblances to him in the
features of the picture of the bomb
thrOWer. NOrcrOSS was as crazy as a
loon when he did that. There is no
other explanation l can find from my
knowledge of the man."
NEW YORK, Dec. 12.-MOrgue Keener
White this morning denied having any
knowledge that the head was identified.
He said man from Boston called at the
mOrgue last night, but if he identified
it he must have made his Identification
known after leaving, as he did not an
nounce it there. Inspector Byrnes, who
has charge OF The official work of endeay-
Oring to find out who the bOmb-thrOwer
was, said today that he had no knowl-
edge that the head at the morgue had
been identified. Il can say this" he
added, ''since the day of the explosion
the head has been positively Unidentified
beyond any doubt seven times. In
each case we found the person supposed
to be the bomb thrower alive and WE'LL
Mr.. Sage has carefully reviewed the
events of that fatal Friday, and now re-
calls that hJs visitor had the Satchel in
his left hand; that he made motion as
if TO throw it; that he was very merry
Gus, trembling with excitement. and
the bag apparently dropped from his
hand sooner than was intended. The
man jumped backward as if to escape
the resnlt Int If was tnn Late Mr. Saof