Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-07
PARTICULARS
OF the Dynamite Explosion In
Russell Sage's Office.
Not Bomb of the Explosive but q
ValiSe Full of It.
The Madman and Two Others
Fatally Injured.

Mystsry-Not Hiram Wilson, OF Utica,
Killed and Injured-Mr. Sage Down
Town as Uusual saturday--No Bonds or
Securities Lost.
NEW YORK, Dec. 7.-Corrected reports
of the explosion in the Office Of Russell
Sage state that shortly after 10 o'clock
stranger entered the Office, and, pre-
senting card-"Wilson & Hockenborg,
bond negotiators, Ill Broadway"--an-
uounced that he had bonds from Mr..
Rockefeller to negotiate.
The clerks called Mr.. Sage from his
inner office, when the stranger presented
to him type-written letter, demanding
immediate payment to the bearer Of $1,-
250, 900, and declaring that In default
the office and everybody in 1t would be
blown out of existence.
Mr.. Sage, after reading the letter,
handed it back to the man and started to
retreat to his private office, when the
visitor, drawing a revolver, fired it a.
valise full of dynamite, which he carried
in his hand. The explosion which fol-
lowed was terrific, wrecking the office.
The mad man was blown to pieces.
Injured.
Those fatally injured were:
Ben f. Norton, a clerk.
Frank r ertson, clerk.
The other injured were:
Russell Sage, cut about hands and face
by flying pieces of glass.
Charles w. Osborn, bookkeepeR.
Samuel j. Calhoun, clerk, cut on head.
William T.. Laidlow, fractured leg.
OolOnel j. j. SlesuR, bTWtherStIa-lmw
of Mr.. Sage, cut about head and face.
The madman's head and legs were
found lying in the rubbish, but the
trunk was scattered to the winds.
Mr.. sage's Injuries
At the home of Russell Sage it is said
Saturday morning that the injured man
passed good night Mr.. Sage was
debating letters in bed and had received
many callers as well as many kilograms
of congratulation. He slept well during
the night. His face is badly lacerated
and his body full of splinters and bits of
glass. His eye brows and considerable
Of his hair is gone. Slocum, his brother
in-law, who was also cut and bruised,
was at the Office Saturday.
tity of the assassin.
1t is settled that the only persons killed
were the unknown dynamiter and Mr.
Sage's clerk Norton. The injured at the
hospitals are doing well
The police kept everybody or. of the
building Saturday.
Mr.. Osborn, the only clerk of Mr..
Sage who escaped unhurt, was engaged
Saturday morning recovering scattered
papers, Among the documents recov-
cred was the check which young
Robertson had when he was mangled
by the explosion. 1t was covered with
blood, and two holes were blown
through it, 1t is for $4,000. and was
drawn in favor Of Sage to pay for Chi
cago, Burlington and Quincy bonds.
Mr.. Connor says that no bonds or securi-
ties were lost by himself or Mr.. Sage.
Robertson's Ante-Mortem Statsme ent.
Coroner Messemer went to the Cham
bers street hospital and took the ante
mortem statement of Frank Robertson,
nineteen years old, an employe of w.
M. Imbre g. Company, stock brokers at
SO Broadway. He said;
About 1890 o'clock / went over to
Mr.. Russell Sage's Office, II Broadway,
Of Burlington and Quincy stock. / saw
lively. The latter seemed to shun him.
The man pulled out what looked like
pistol 1t all glittered, and he put 1t in
his right-hand overcoat pocket.
knew nothing more until yelled "Mur-
derr | heard an explosion, and every
body yelled murder. The explosion took
place second after | saw him put tho
ghttering object in his pocket. The man
had high silk hat, light brown whis-
kers, was about thirty-eight years old,
wore a black overcoat, and was well
dressed. He was alone, and had square
satchel."
The story of the plot on Mr. Sage's
life goes far back. Russell Sage, Jr.,
talked freely about it, He said chat of
late Mr.. Sage had received three or four
threatening letters signed by one James
Walsh. In one of them the writer do
manded 81 200, 900. Why that sum Mr..
Sage could not say. The recent troubles
between President Andrews, OF the New
York Steam Heating company, and the
Standard Gaslight company now come
into play in the case.
A large part of the stock in dispute
belonged to the widows Spinola ard
Mannheim. These women, Walsh said in
his letters, he was about to marry. Pc,
therefore, demanded money 70 pht him
on their financial level. Mr.. Sage paid
no attention to him. Mr.. Jay Gould
was also attacked in the letters and de-
nounced in abusive terms.
The writer threatened Mr.. Sage's life,
but no attention was paid to it, as all
who knew about the letters believed
him to be harmless crank" to quote
Russell Sage, Jr., s own words.
Not Hiram Wilson.
UTICA, N. Y, Dec. Hiram Wilson,
who is mentioned as the crank who
dropped the dynamite in Russell Sag g
office, is in his bed at the state hospital
in this city.
Beet Sugar on the Move.
GALEsBURG, ILL.,, Dec. THE citizens
of Galesburg have completed the raising