Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-12-05
,bo leg. He was taken to St. Vim

cents Hospital.
Col. J. j. Slocum, a brother-in-law OF
Ma. SAGE, and his chief clerk, were
badly cut about the head and face.
Quickly gathering together what ne
could, he placed them in small sale
and had it removed to the office OF the
Manhattan Railroad Company, In the
same building.
Later in the afternoon the fremen
found among the debris, leg, which
was thought to be that OF a woman.
Whether it is or not has not been dis
covered. Russell Sage never employed
a woman typewriter, and as this TACT Is
well established, the supposition Is that
II the leg is that of woman 1t Is all
that is left Of one OF his put and call
customers who was in the Office at the
time.
Among the debris in the wrecked Off
ces was found the remains OF SILK nat,
evidently worn by the man who gave ms
name as Wilson, and In one corner OF
Mr.. Sage's private Office, where Mr..
James was sitting alone at the time OF
the explosion, mans hand. :.
Mr.. Washington E. Conner was In his
Office on thu Broadway front OF the
building, and on the same tloor with
Mr.. Sage when the explosion cana. Mr..
Conner was cut of the building among
the first and assisted Mr.. Sage to the
drug store. Within half an hour atter-
wards he had opened new office just
across Broadway and transacted 0usl-
ness all day.
AS Mr.. Sage was being led through
the lower hal of the building into the
street, he sad: sit is dynamite ex-
plosion and they meant it for us this
time" Thecoroner made an examln-
alton of the mangled remains OF the
man found il Sage's Office, and from the
mangled mas of flesh and clothing took
seven chamber bulldog revolver.
This was all that could be found oy
which an Identification could be made.
What was lett by the explosion OF the
madman's body, at least it was so la
beled and accepted by Police and Coro-
ner, was laid out in Undertaken Dufts
Office, at So Greenwich street.
Crowds cane and went, looking at
the face, but no one knew it. When
darkness fell, the undertaken, tired OF
the sight, threw a cloth over 1t and shut
the door
Russell SAGE made the following state
ment to INSPECTOR Byrnes this evening:
81 came olt of my office, having been
sent for. Hound there a man with a
satchel. Ht handed me card bearing
the name ofH. d. Wilson. He said he
had came fom John d. Rockefeller,
and at the SINE time handed me tpye-
written lett,r in a sealed envelope.
at was addressed to me. | opened 1t
and found that it was demand upon
me for the pyment Of a million and
Quarter dollars. The letter stated that
il the none was net given up at once
to the presenter Of the letter that ne
would blowme, himself and the entire
Office up with dynamite.
Il read te letter. and placing 1t in
the envolop, handed it back to him,
and turnedto go into my private Office,
when the explosion occurred"
The story of the plot on Mr.. Sage's
life goes far back. Russell Sage, Jr.,
talked freek about it. He said that OF
late Mr.. SAFE had received some threat
ening letters signed by one James
Walsh. InOne of them the writer de-
manded 81, 900 Why that sum, Mr..
Sage could lot say. The recent troubles
between President Andrews, OF the New
York Steam Yachting Company and the
Standard Gas Light Company, now
come into pay in the case.
A large pirt of the stock in dispute
belongs TO the widows Spinola and Man
helm. Thee women, Walsh said in his
! letters, he vas about to marry. He
therefore bmanded money to put him
on their finincial level. Mr.. Sage paid
no attention to him. Mr.. Jay Gould
was also attacked in the letters, and
denounced n abusive terms.
The writer threatened Mr.. Sage's
life, but no attention was paid to it as
all who know about the letters believed
him to be u harmless crank" to quote
| Russell Sage, Jr.'s own words. The re-
suit is known and Mr.. Sage has been
made an Object of the dynamite fiend.
Russell Sige saw the head of D. II.
Wilson, theman who threw the bomb,
and identified it as belonging to the
man who had come to his Office and de-
manded the money. Inspector Byrnes
took the chastity, CORY head in a
basket to NJ. Sage's house and together
with DIR. Mjnn, carried it to Mr.. Sage's
bed room on the second floor. The in
slant tho mRgnate, who was lying in
bed, saw the countenance, he said:
that's the head OF the man."
The Identification was complete. In
spector Byrhes sent the head to the
Morgue.