The Wilmington daily Republican., 1891-12-05

uaSSo'oh AtS ooaAouS AnJulloos ho Id
woui. de about the head, and one of his
knees IS 10 injured, but no bones are
broken"
The. Crank's Remains.
What was left by the explosion Of the
madman's body-at least it was labeled
and accepted by the police and coroner
was laid out in an undertaker's estab-
lishment on Greenwich street. 1t was
not much. The head was there, but it
lacked the body. 1t was cut off at the
top of the neck, and looked like the
mask of a man 35 or 40 years of age,
with full beard that might have been
long, but was now burned close to the
chin and neck. The left foot and one
hand were also there. The body proper
was gone. OF neither chest nor adbo-
men was trace found. The leg that
was there was broken and twisted. Such
shreds of clothing as were found showed
thai the man had worn trousers of a
blue black plaid, a black overcoat and
long, black stockings. He had been
careful to rid himself of everything that
might disclose his identity. His name
had been written in the corner of his
high black hat, but he had cut it out
with knife. There was hole in the
lining where 1t had been.
hN AActAu
Inspector Byrnes spent two hours at
the residence of Mr.. Sage last night. and
upon his return to police headquarters
stated that while Mr.. Sage's remains in
bed he is suffering from little else than
shock. The millionaire stated substan-
TALLY the same story of the events of the
afternoon that have already been given.
One of the chief reasons of the visit of
the inspector was for the purpose of de-
termining the identity of the severed
head, which was taken to the house in a
basket, after the neck had been con-
cealed by cloth. 1t was shown to MIR.
Sage who identified it as that of his
murderous visitor, thus settling that
point of the case. From the features the
head was evidently that of man of He
braic descent, and Mr.. Sage said that he
had never before saw his murderous
visitor.
List of the Victims.
The list of dead, injured and missing
Is as follows:
II. d. Wilson, alias Lord, the thrower
of the bomb, frightfully mangled and
torn.
B. F. Norton, of Far Rockaway, aged
80 years, died in Chambers Street hos
pital.
An unknown man, head and frag-
ments of body picked up on the floor and
walls of Russell Sages Office. Supposed
to be clerk.
An unknown man, whose mutilated
remains were found in the hallway out
side of Mr.. Sage's Office.
The fragments of bodies were taken to
the morgue.
F. J. Menzio, aged 25, type writer and
stenogragher to Mr.. Sage, said to have
been blown up by the explosion. May
be one of those found dead.
INJURED.
Russell Sage, millionaire broker and
investor, bleeding from cuts in head.
Colonel j. j. Slocum, gashed and cut
about the face, but not seriously. Able
to walk away.
G. w. Osborn, cashier of Mr.. Sage,
cut, gashed and bruised from head to
foot and probably internally injured.
Will probably die.
William Lalor, Wall street broker,
cut about face and head, and bruised.
AT hospital suffering from shock.
William A. Laidlaw, at hospital suf-
fering from many injuries.
Samuel G. Calhoun, telegraph opera
tor, badly bruised and dazed
Frank Robertson, brokers' clerk, badly
lacerated and cut. May die.
An unknown man, supposed to be
Samuel Biern, of Hiawatha, Kan. Iden-
tiication assumed from document found
in pocket,
a Dangerous Lunatic.
A special from Albany says; The dy-
Mantle crank is thought to be Hiram d.
Wilson, aged As years, an escaped luna
tic and native of Glens Falls, Warren
county. Wilson had previously escaped
from the Middletown and Utica asy-
lums. He was very strong man and
of light complexion. The first signs of
insanity were developed about fourteen
years ago, when he kept the Bolton
house on Lake George. Then he led
horses into the hotel, and, mounting
table, delivered an address to them. OF
late years he he has talked of making
horses go faster than they have ever
gone and of patent rights. At one time
he took the shoes off a horses feet and
put them on his own feet and then led
the horse over the mountainous country
of the Adirondaeks. Wilson, after short
terms in an insane asylums, has been
discharged as cured or escaped. He
has generally celebrated his freedom by
threatening to kill some one who refused
to meet his demands for money. Sew
eral years ago he had attempted to kill
man whom he had asked for money to
set him up in business. On another
occasion, when w. ]. Arkell was in Al
bany Wilson made demand on him.
Upon being refused Wilson threatened
to kill Mr.. Arkell, and even attempted
to assault him in his business office.
He has also threatened the life of Good
win Brown, of the state lunacy commits
sioners. 1t was loss of money that made
Wilson crazy. He was arrested about
year ago for threatening to kill some
one here.
Threatening Letters.
The story of the plot on Mr.. Sage's
life goes far back. Russell Sage, Jr.,
said that Mr.. Sage had received three or
four threatening letters signed by one
James Walsh In them the writer de-
manded 81, 200, GOO. In his letter Walsh
said he was about to marry the widows
of Messrs. Spinola and Mannheim, to
whom large amount of the stock in