Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-12-10
PHIL FPS IS ALIVE
The Ban k Clerk and the Dy-
 naml ter Not the Same.
MANY POI: xTs OF RESEMBLANCE.
Identity of t, le D9ad Bomb Thrower as
 Great Mystery as Ever.

Confidently Tn ought Yesterday that He
 Was John H trbert Phillips, for some
 Time Employ cd in the Haaovnr Ma
 tiOnal Bank, W hO Had Often 1hroatened
 Capitalists, and; Said He Knew Way of
 Getting a Mnli on Out of Goul,i- -Disc3y.
 cred Alive in ( I,Icago.
 NEW YORK, Dec 1O-D 5te ctve Jos. J. Aiken, of the Hanover National Bank. and John Mas sey, an ex-clerk of the same institution, tar ted yesterday to make 8 sworn identification of the dead dynamter who wrought death and destruction in Russell Sage office last Friday. They said the man was John Herbert Phillips, who employed with them for some years as an assist ant bookkeeper in the bank. A dis patch from Chicago, however, last night, showed that Phillips was alive in that city.
 Phillips was with the bank for three years His salary was $1O0, but it is claimed that as Phillips was q society man in Brooklyn that sum was not enough for him. In order to provide himself with sui hcient funds it is fur ther charged he em mbezzled in small amounts about $f3, 900, and it was owing to this theft that Detective Aiken's at
 
 he was engagId in ferreting out the thief.
 lie saw the head in the glass re cepta- cle yesterday at he Morgue. It was not in good state Of preservation, but even under those disad vantages he identified 1t as belonging to Phillips.
 He said that he has had exceptional cause to study Phil ips's head, as he had him under observat ton while he was un- der suspicion in tn 0 bank and on ac- count of his peaulia4rities.
 Detective Aiken gave the following points of identIhc&tio Il: The head he was sure bland this was strengthened by the fact that the dynam iter wore such small shoe aad had such a small leg that it was at first supposed when Lhese DOT uions of his body were found among the ruins that they were believed to have belonged to d woman.
 Phillips wore 4 1-2 shoe and was very dainty about his dress. He was of ten joked by the other clerks on hls girls legs, as they called them.
 Mir. Massey said that Philips was al ways dissatisfied with his condition. He would suddenly start swearing over his work, and the objects of his wrath were always capitalists and wealthy pc O. pie.
 He often argued on financial matters, and believed that the wealth of the world should be equally distribu ted He was often heard to say that he be- ieved he knew way of ''bluiTing Gould out of mnlion." Mr. Massey said that Phillips was undou btedIy crazy. Phillips was last seen in New York two months ago.
 A dispatch from Chicago gives this information concerning tue man Phll- lips: Dispatches from New York state John HerDer Phillips is suppose ed O have been the man who threw the dyna- mite bomb at Russell Sage after de- manding S1, 200, OO0 Philips, the man referred to-, was in Chicago early las r. spring.
 He called at the office of the Com ~ merclal Bank and presented a card showing that he was had been con nected with the Hanover NaGioual Bank of New York. After introducing him self to David Vernon, the assistan | cashier, Philips said he had been tn g protest clerk of the Hanover National Bank, but was no longer in it's emDlo y; that he had been in Dover and was then returning East. As Mr. Vernon recol- lects him Phillips was a apper young man with a dark musGach.' and hand somely dressed.
 During the afternoon Of the mo day the assistant cashier of he Hanover National, who happened to be in Chr cago on his vacation trip, clrOpped into the office of the CommerciiLl National, and in conve rs&tion with !Ir. Nern on, said that Phillips had never been pro test clerk of the Hanover National, but had at one time occupied some minor clerical position. He did llot give Phil lips the highest character, and spoke ot him being a trihe fghty at times
 Phillips's father was d retired sea captain of considerable me .Rns WhjI Ie calling at the Commerclal National Phillips did not apply for a position or ask favor of any Kind.
 The matter create much comment in banking circles downtown, as Phillips Was quite we'll known, and a!so owing to the fact that Russell Saga partially identified the man from 8 phot ol,raph.
 Death of Prof Donaldson.