The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-12-22
Els PARENTS VISIT TIE MORGUE.
The Mother of Henry L. Norcross Makes
q Positive Statement--Two Letters
Written by the Bomb-Thrower
Found in His Desk-The First
Letter Destroyed by
His Mother.

New YORK, Dec. l6-The parents OF
Henry l. Norcross the Boston note
broker. identified the bomb thrower's
head at the morgue as that OF their son al
! O'clock this morning Coroner Mes.
sener had charge of the identification and
accented il as complete. Previous to the
visit to the morgue the coroner took the
sworn statements of the note brokers'
parents and they will be used at the In
quest, which will begin as soon as an
upper jury can be summoned.
Mr.. and Mrs. flames Norcross arrived
here frcm Boston at p. m, and went to
the Grand Union hotel and expressed
wish TO visit the mOrgue as soon as possi-
BILE The coroner made haste to take the
.yoman's statement and that of her hus-
band. A Mr.. Whiting, an old friend OF
the family, accompanied the aged
couple, and the three got in
a carriage with the coroner and
arrived at Bellevue hospital shortly after
! a. IN. Warden O'Rour6e and Clerk
Ricketts, hastily arranged the head so as
10 shock the parents as little as possible
A cloth was placed around the neck, and
Mrs. Norcross and the gentlemen were
ushered into the warden's private Office.
MIS-. NOrcEOSS WdS ItSJ SLoNu INC ucou-
She identified it in the presence of Coroner
Messener. She said positively:
This is my darling boy, yes, yes, yes,
poor Henry, poor Henry. Ny poor, darl-
ing boy. He never meant to do any harm.
He surely did not mean to do wrong. Yes.
yes, these are his teeth. know them. 1
remember those under teeth and how proud
ne was of them, and that tooth there. l
hat. hnr
YES, and his ears-how often have looked
at them. And Observation-Disclosures. That's
Just the way he used to part it."
At this point Coroner Messener asked
the mother if she positively identified the
head. The Borrowing woman knelt down
on the hard floor of hospital Office and laid
her head upon the forehead of her dead
son. She was about to kiss the forehead
when MIR. Whiting gently drew her back.
She turned on him and said fiercely.
al wish had come here alone. must
Kiss my boy"
The filings of the teeth were examined
and were found to tally exactly with the
description furnished by DR.. Wells, the
dead .man's dentist. Mrs. Norcross'
statement made to Coroner Messener in
the Grand Union hotel last midnight, is as
follows:
"a letter was found in the safe in his
Office and delivered to me. ! cannot give
the contents Of the letter. 1t has been de-
stroyed 1t was written in black ink on
plain unruled paper, very wide. It was
not dated 1t began: Dear Mother, I am
going to New York to-day to get 8, 20O,-
600. II successful I shall return. II not,
shall kill myself He signed his name
IN full Henry L NOrcroSS.'
There was another letter addressed in
his own handwriting to Mrs. James Z.
Eorcross, PERSONAL The first letter was
DESTROYED because he said he wanted no
one else to know its contents. We read
this three times together, l and my hus-
band, and then 1 put it on the Goals my
self felt that was the disposition he
wanted made Of it. I was SO shocked I
could not tell how long would live.
'.The second letter have here 1t reads:
&C. H. L. Norcross, note broker, No. IL
Pearl street, room7 Boston, it should be
S, because he changed his room. Dear
Mother: You will find the combination Of
my safe at home under the bureau and the
carpet of my room. HENRI
p. S.-Open the safe and read the letter
70 you, without the presence OF anyone If
possible
1.-The letter was written in the first per.
son-every word of it He had no satchel
when he left home never saw the bag
they say he had. He said to me when he
left I am going away, for few
days and will not be back before
Saturday night probably He did not
say where he was going. There was
nothing peculiar in his manner. He seemed
quite thoughtful He had been thoughtful
for the last six months, though at times
ne was as jolly as ever. He and l used to
have a frolic when he came down to break
fast nearly every morning. In his letter
he did not say why he wanted the
81, 200. co.,"
The Dynamiter Fully Identified.
New YORK, Dec. 1.-THE head Of the
dynamiter was full identified last night as
L ~ l..