, 1891-12-05

greeting me, asked me into his private
Office. Sage had just removed his hat
and asked me to be seated when his clerk
entered and said something to him l did
not hear. Turning to me he said. 'Ex-
cuse me a moment and passed through
the door into the main Office. The door
was closed behind him and /, pushing my
chair over to the wall. was facing the door
through which Sage had gone.
1T might have been two or three
minutes when the explosion came. l
was blown nearly to the ceiling and the
chair on which L sat was smashed to
pieces. | tell down all in a heap. Dust
and small particles of plaster and smoke
filled the room. L was completely dszed
and did not know what to do. l remem
from which the explosion had blown the
Sage, blood dripping down his face and
hands, his clothes torn and rent and
covered with dust. When he saw me
said: How shall we get out2'
Wait | replied, until this
dust settles, and L think
we will be all right as the worst must be
over, Then | recovered nv senses and
taking him by the arm. led him down the
stairway into the street" Among the
debris In the wrecked Offices was found
the remains of a silk hat, evidently worn
by the man who gave his name as Will
son, and in one corner of Sage's private
office where James was sitting alone at
the time of the explosion. a mans
hand was found. Washington Z. Con-
nor was in his office on Broadway in
front of the building and on the same
floor with Sage when the explosion came.
Common was out of the building among
the first and assisted Sage to the drug
store. The coroner made an examination
Of the mangled remains of the man
found IN Ssge's Office and from the mass
of mangled flesh and clothing took a seven
chamber bulldog revolver. This was all
that could be found by which identified
ton could be made. What was left of
the body was laid out in the undertaker's
Office in Greenwich street. 1t was not
much. The head was there, blackened,
but neither cut nor ~disigured in any way.
1t was cut of at the top of the neck and
looked for all the world like the mask of a
man IS or 40 wears old. with a full beard
that might have been long but was nov
burned close to the chin and check. Then
there was a leg-the rieht-the left foot,
one land and that was all.
The body proper was gone; of neither
chest nor abdomen was a trace found.
Shreds OF clothing were found showing
the mar 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 being found.
He had been careful to rid himself of
everything that might disclose his iden.
tity. His name had been written in his
hat, but he had cut 1t out with a knife.
Russell Sage made this statement to
Inspector Byrues this evening: 81 came
out of my office, having been sent for,
aud found q man with a satchel. He
handed me a card bearing the name of n.
D. Wilson. He said he came from j. d.
Rockefeller and handed me a written
letter in a sealed envelope.
1T was addressed to me. | found it
was a demand upon me for the payment
of 81 ,250, 200. The letter stated 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 dyna-
mite. read the letter and placing 1t in
the envelope handed it back to him and
turned to go into my private Office when
the explosion occurred"
Coroner MESSENGER went to the Cham
bers street hospital and took the ante
mortem statement OF Frank Robertson,
an employe of Imbre & Co. He said he
went to Sage's Office to get some shares of
stock.
He saw a man talking to Sage very
attentivelv. The man pulled out what
looked like a pistol. 1t glittered and he
put 1t in his right hand overcoat pocket.
II knew nothing more until | yelled
murder. | heard an explosion and every
body yelled murder" Russell Sage, Jr.,
said Of late Mr.. Sage received three or
four threatening letters signed James
Walsh. In one of them the writer
demanded 81, 200, 600. The recent
troubles between President Andrews OF
the New York Steam Heating compan
and the Standard Gas Light company
now comes into play in the case. A large
part of stock in dispute belonged to
Widows Spinols and Mannheim.
These women, Walsh said in his letters,
he was about to marry. He therefore de-
manded money to put him on their fiOan-
cial level. Sage paid no attention to
him. jay Gould was also attacked in the
letters and denounced in abusive terms.
The writer threatened Sage's life, but 20
attention was paid to 1t as all who knew
about the letters believed him a harmless
crank to use young Sage's own words.
Russell Sage saw the head of d. Ii.
Wilson, the man who threw the bomb,
and Identified 1t as belonging to the man
VINO had conn to his Office and demanded
money, Inspector Byrnes took the
CHASTITY, cory head in a basket to Mr..
Sage's house and. together with Mr..
Mum. carried it into Mr.. Sage's bed
room. The instant the magnate, who
was lying in bed, saw the countenance of
the head he said, That's the head OF the
man"
The Supposed Crank.