The record-union., 1891-12-05

when the explosion came. was blown
nearly, to the ceiling. and the chair
on which / had sat was smashed
to pieces: l fell down all in heap.
Dust and small particles of plaster
and smoke filled the room. / was
completely dazed, and did not know what
TO do. | remember making my way
through the passage from which the ex-
plosion had blown the door into the main
Office. There met Sage, the blood drip
prlng down his face and hands, his
clothes torn and rent, and covered with dirt
ana dust. When he saw me he said:
How shall we get out?' Wait 1 re-
piled, until this dust settles, and / think
we viii be all right, as the worst must be
over Then recovered my senses, and
taxing him by the arm led him down the
stairway into the street."
Among the debris in the wrecked
offices was found the remains of silk
hat, evidently worn by the man who gave
the name of Wilson, and who sat in one
corner of Sage's private office, where
James was sitting alone at the time of the
explosion. The mans hand was also
found.
Washington Conner was in his office
on Broadway, in the front of the build
ing and on the same floor with Sage,
when the explosion came. Conner was
IlTSI,
| assisted Sage to the drug store.
The Coroner made examination of the
| mangled remains of the man found in
Sage's office, and from the mass of flesh
and clothing took a SeYen-chamber bull
| dog revolver. This was all that could be
found by which Identification could be
made. What was left of the body was
| laid out in an undertaker's office on
Greenwich street. 1t was not much.
The head was there, blackened, but
neither cut nor distigured in any way
1t was cut off the neck and looked for all
| the world like the mask of man 80 or 40
years old, with full beard that might
have been long, but was now burned
| close to the chin and cheeks Then there
was a leg-the right. left foot, one hand,
and that was all. The body proper was
gone. Ofneither the chest nor abdomen
was trace found. Shreds of clothing
were found showing that the man had
worn trousers of blue-black plaid a
black overcoat and long black stockings
That might have started the story Of the
Woman'S leg having been found. He had
! been careful to rid himself OF everything
| that might disclose his identity. His
name had been written in his hat, but
he had cut it out with knife.
Russell Sage made statement to In
spector Byrnes this evening: Il came
out Of my Office, having been sent for.
handed me card bearing the name of II.
ID. Wilson. He said he came from J. d.
Rockefeller, and handed me a written
letter in a sealed envelope. It was adj
dressed to me. l found it was demand
upon me for the payment of a million
and quarter dollarS.A The letter stated
that If the money was not given up at
once to the presenter of the letter, he
would blow me, himself, and the entire
| office up with dynamite. / read the let
! ter, and placing it in the envelope
| handed it back to him and turned to go
into my private office, when the explo-
| sion occurred"
| Coroner MESSENGER went to the Cham
! bers-street Hospital and took the ante
mortem statement of Frank Robertson,
an employe of Imbre Il Co. He says he
went to Sage's office to get some shares OF
| stock. lie saw man talking to Sage
very attentively. The man pulled out
what looked like a pistol. 1t glittered,
and he put it in his right-hand overcoat
pocket. | knew nothing more until |
yelled murder. | heard the explosion,
and everybody yelled murder"
Russell Sage, Jr., said of late Mr.. Sage
| had received three or four threatening
letters signed James Walsh. In one OF
them the writer demanded 81, 200, 900.
| What that sum was for Sage could not
! say.
The recent troubles between President
Andrews of the New York Steam Heat
| ing Company and the Standard Gaslight
| Company now came into play in the case.
| A large part of the stock in dispute be-
longed to the widows Spinola and Man
| helm. These women, Walsh said in the
| letters, he was about to marry. He there
fore demanded the money to put him on
better financial level. Sage paid no at
tention to him. Jay Gould was also at
| tackled in the letters, and denounced in
| abusive terms. The writer threatened
Sage's life, but no attention was paid to
| it, as all who knew about the letters be-
| lieved him harmless crank, )" to use
| young Sage's own words.
| Russell Sage saw the head of D. H.
| Wilson, the man who threw the bomb,
and identified it as belonging to the man
who had come to the office and demanded
money. Inspector Byrnes took the
! CHASTITY, CORY head in a basket to MIR.
| Sage's house and carried it to Mr.. Sage's
bedroom. The instant the magnate, who
was lying in bed, saw the head, he said,
That's the head of the man."
AN ESCAPED LUNATIc.
| ALBANY On. W, Dec. 4.-The dvna-
miter is thought to be Hiram D. Wilson,
| aged 45, an escaped lunatic and a native
of Glens Falls, Warren County. Wilson
escaped previously from Middletown and
other asylumS.
Several years ago he attempted to kill a
man when he had asked for money to set
him up in business. On another occasion.
when w. j. Arkell was in Albany, Will
son made a demand on him, threatened
to kill him, and even attempted to assault
the life of Goodwin Brown, one of the
Safe Lunacy Commissioners. Wilson
was arrested here about year ago for
threatening to kill someone.