Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-12-08
RUSSELL sAeE.s AssArLArr.
All Enorts 10 Identify tho Bomb Thrower'
Head Are I'm Vain.

Il
Head Are i'm vaan.
William D. Southworth, the man whom In
spector Byrnes on Sunday evening arrested
upon suspicion Of being an accomplics Of the
dynamiter who blew up Russell Sage's Office
was brought to the Tombs from police head
quarters in New York yesterday morning by
Detective Sergeant Titus and arraigned before
Police Justice Smith. No formal hearing was
had. the. sergeant merely asking that the pris-
oner be remanded to the Tombs a. suspicious
character for further examination. To this
the justice at once acosded, end Southworth.
who was unrepresented by counsel, was placed
in one of the Tombs cells.
soUTHwoRrn II NOT CRAZY.
Southworth turns out . most remarkable
character. Detective Titus, who had charge Of
him, asserted that the fellow was crazy. but it
was found later on that the prisoner was en-
tirely sane. On being taken to Bellevue Hos
pital in the evening he was placed in the insane
pavilion and examined last night by DR.. Mat
thew Field and DR.. Allan Fitch, experts In in
sane cases.
southworth told q very straight story in
the tale he had once told DR.. Field when IN the
Tombs before on October 80.
The head Of the man who dropped the dyna-
mite bomb in Russell Sage's Office ct No II
ofOduWuy ihHt Tludy WAS uuHDc0uou III SlHsb
jar containinga preservative fluid in the morgue
Yesterday: About fifty persons who said they
thought they had known the man called at the
morgue to identify the head during the fore
White.
The first Of these called at 10 o'clock and
said he was James NJ. Pollock, bookkeeper for
Gabe Case, the Central Park restaurant man.
After a glance at the suspended head he exam
ined photograph which he had brought with
hi A. -
man who called himself Professor A. A. Dem
ton; Denton. he explained. was crank, who
said he was the ghost of George Washington,
and proclaimed himself Americas spiritual
adviser" The man used to parade the streets
covered with American flags and carrying toy
pistols.
He was q frequent caller at Cases and once
he told Mr.. Pollock that he hoped to see Jay
Gould hanging from arm of the statue Of
Liberty. Denton's headquarters were in Lutz's
saloon, at the corner OF Broadway and Union
street, Brooklyn. He has not been seen in
Central Park since last July. After Mr. Pol
lock had gazed at the head for fifteen minutes
he expressed the opinion that it was not Dem
tons but he was not sure
NO NEW INFORMATION.
Ten minutes later I. J. McCarty, gasftter
living at No 1877 East 25th street. looked at the
head and said he was willing to swear it was
Denton's. He had often seen Denton on the
Bowerv and was sure he could not be mistaken.
The morgue keeper does not place much con.
fidence in McCarty's identification. He has
witnessed SO many alleged Identifcations in
the last two days that he has grown as skeptical
as the police.
Inspector Byrnes said yesterday that he had
no new information as to the identity Of the
lomb thrower.
THE OTHER VICTIMS RECOVERING.
The house surgeon at the Chambers Street
Hna ffol sold n n.k.
Frank Robertson, victims Of the bomb ex-
plosion, were both getting along we'll, and will
probably be able to leave for their homes by
the end Of the week. Robertson will not lose
the sight of his left eye. Both men are in good
spirits and are practically out Of danger. At
st. V1ncents Hospital it was said that W. X.
Laidlaw, jr.. is doing we'll He slept we'll Sunday
night and his condition yesterday was better
than on Sunday.
Mr. sAaE's CONDITION.
The intimate friends of Russell Sage who
have had access to his bed room reported him
yesterday as suffering severely from the reac-
ton which has set in from the shock which he
received last Friday when the dynamite bomb
was exploded ut his feet. His doctors are
quoted as saying that it was possible that the
aged financier might be down town today.
1t must be borne in mind, however, that
while Mr. Sage possesses a robust constitution
he Is seventy-six years OF age and Of very
timid disposition. The only newspaper man
who has been admitted to his bed chamber and
who was formerly his private secretary, said
yesterday that he would not be surprised il he
never again visited his office; that while his
wounds are OF slight character. he il suffer-
ing very severely from shock. and it il inpos-
sible to tell what the eventual result may be.
The feeling which the explosion has created in
the neighborhood of the wrecked offices was we'll
exemplified at o'clock last evening, when
sharp explosive report was heard In front of
streets, two blocks away from the building in
which the disaster occurred last Friday.
Instantly great crowd gathered, people run
ming from every direction, and It required
number OF policemen to disperse the throng.
1t was found that some one, possibly mis-
chievous boy, had placed small cartridge in
the street and the wheels Of one Of the wagons
Of the Adams Express Company passing over
it caused it to explode. The assembling Of
the crowd caused a rumor to spread quickly
that another crank had been using dynamite.