Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-12-16
IS NORCROSS ALIVE?
A Friend of His Makes Start
 ling Statements.
THE HEAD AGAIN EXAMINED.
Positively Pronounced by W. T. Whit e Not to be that of tho Boston Broker

Not to be that of the Boston Broker. White Was Norcross' Only 1utimate--ae Found Many Differences Between the CaPut of the Dynamiter and that of His Friend--su$picIOus Circumstauceso of tn. 1denai if1cation by NOrcrOsS' Parents White ThiDks the Broker Has Disup- peared for Reasons of His Own.
 NEW YORK, Dec 16-The absolute identification of MT. and Mrs. Norcross of the head of the dynamite thrower as that of their son would have cleared up the mystery that has enshrouded this most remarkable case had it not been for the appearance yesterday of a new and apparently reliable witness whose testimony goes far to pset the alleged identification.
 It will be remembered that the office adjoining thLat of Norcross was occupied by w. T. White, a designer of machin- cry and 8 promoter of railroad enter prises with whom Norcross was on terms of the closest intimacy. In fact MT. White was the only really in innate friend that Norcross is known to have had, and he has been the only per son who knew Norcross who from the first has resolutely refused to believe that he was the dynamiter.
 MT. White came on from Boston yes terday and was met by reporter on his | arrival by boat.
 A start was at once made for the Nor | gue and on the way the reporter told 1 MT. White of the identification of the | head by MT. and Mrs. Norcross and re- marked that he had little doubt that he would find it to be that of his missing | friend.
 The head proved to be in the jar in the l ice-b box down in the cellar of the hos pital, and, as it had been positively identified and claimed by MT. Norcross and wife, Warden O'Rourke was un- willing at first to expose it for inspec- tion. On learning that Whi te was an intim ate friend of Norcross he consent | ed to do so They went down into the 1 cellar, and the head was taken from the jar and placed on 8 stand under 8 strong light from a window.
 1 MT. White went about his task calm ly and methodically. First he exam ined the face attentively and scru . l tinized every feature. Then he asked | to have tue head laid on one side, and l gazed long and attentively at the pro- | file. Not a word was spoken until MT. White exclaimed:
 II am willing to stake my reputation and wager every dollar have that the head is not that of Henry L. Norcross l It does not resem ble him in any particu- l lar, with the possible exception of the nose, and even in that there is 8 marked l difference about the nostrils. The beard is not that of Norcross, that I'll swear to. He and l began to grow our boards on the same day, toward the end of last | August, and we used to compare their growth and joke each other His beard was black like mine, but the beard on this head is of distinctly reddish color | The hair too is not that of Norcross. His was very fine, whereas this is ex- ceedingly coarse.
 l ''Then again, Norcross had a conspicu- ously long chin, while the chin of that head is decidedly short. The shape of | the head and contour of the forehead are also very different. But laying all these discrepancies aside, there is one | point alone that stamps the head as other than Norcross's. I mean the ears, which you will notice are remarkably small and delicate and fit closely against the head. Now Norcross's ears were simply immense and stuck out straight from his head"
 On leaving the Morgue White was asked what he thought about the lette r to his mother, alleged to have been found in his safe He said that there was something strange about that, and that he did not believe in it's existence
 Its 8 singular thing,'' he said, "that his father never spoke to me about it, although I have seen him almost daily since the explosion. As it is the only bit of evidence positively connecting his son with the explosion in Russell SaRe's office, l think that in the inter ests of justice it ought to be prod uced This is absolutely the only thing that can prove him to be the man."
 Mir. White does not scruple to say that Henry l.. Norcross is alive and well and has simply dropped out of sight for A while for reasons known best to himself, and possibly to his relatives
 He says that Henry was not the austere and puritanically modest young man that his parents have represented him to be.
 The behavior of Mr. and Mrs. Norcross since their iden tifcation of the head of the dynamiter has been such as to OK cite some vague suspicious of their sin cerity.
 It was observed that when confron ted with the head Mrs. Norcross showed very little emotion and did not hesitate to remove the cloth from the face her } self. In spite of the disfgured cond ition of the head the recognition that followed was instantaneous, not moment bsing devoted to examination of the face.
 Mir. and Mrs. Norcross have made long afidavits describing their reasons for believing the head to be that of } their son. The pOsitiveness of Whites statement, however, has called atten- tion anew to the dead dynamiter.
 Doerfinxer Not Yet Sentauoad