The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-12-12
A DYNAMITE BOMB.
IT WAS HURLED INTO RUSSELL
SAGE'S OFFICE
BY . MAN whose Demand for q Cool
Million Xas RefusaA

NEW YORK, December "A 1915
O'Clock this afternoon q small. un-
known man. stability dressed, and
CARRYING q brown leather handbag,
made his way into Russell Sage's of.
flee, at No. II Broadway, and. brush
ing aside the clerk who stands guard
over the door leading TO the finan
cier's room. confronted him. In a
fierce. determined sort of a way he
demanded that $1,000 900 in green
backs be handed him then and there.
Mr.. Sage quietly replied that he
was not in the habit of tr~ausacting a
business of such volume with an IN.
credited stranger, o was he likely to
squander such a sum of money under
the circumstances. lie then told his
visitor to leave.
The mans hand slipped. into the
bag, and: Mr.. Sage. now somewhat
alarmed at the mans action. sum-
moncd his clerks. who were at work
beyond the glass partition.
While they were fastening to the
scene the unknown repeated his de-
mand. and getting no response from
Mr.. Sage, drew a peculiar looking OBJ
ject from the bag and dashed il
violently TO the marble floor of the
apartment.
In an instant an explosion like
thunder ~resounded, a sitting gas
arose, and before the noise had quite
subsidized the bleeding form of Mr..
Sage was seen to stagger into the
hallway, closely followed by a clerk
whose left eye was knocked out of its
socket.
\ scene of unparalleled confusion
ensued when the occupants of the big
building, who believed the battery of
boilers in the basement had explod-
ed, crowded into the elevators and
down the stair cases in a mad rush
for the street.
The rumor quickly spread that
Russell Sage. Jay Gould, who had
been in the building. and his son
George had all been asSassinatcd with
dynamite.
Broadway fer three blocks in both
directions was chokcd with an af-
frighted mass of men, all eager TO get
at the details of the tragedy. In the
midst of this excitement an alarm OF
fire was sounded, quickly responded
to by the department., which dashed
the crowd i'll n reckless and IL
tirely unnecessary sort of n way. kill
ing a boy outright and badly injur-
three men.
a police alarm sent ont brought
100 bluecOats to the scene. The
officers cleared and maintained pas
to No. IL, and eight of them.
headed by Capt MeachaIn. made their
way into the building.
They reached Mr.. Sage's office and
found him on the floor ofthc hallway.
from loss of blood and almost
unable TO speak. W. =. I.aidlaw. HI
secretary, was bending over
him in an almost vain ~endeavor to
keep the inancier in a state OF con
seriousness. From Mr.. Laidlaw the
officers hurriedly received the follow
ing account OF the affair. Mr.. Laid
law said:
"At 1918 this afternoon a small.
stability dressed man. apparently IS
years old, carrying a brown leather
handbag, called at Mr.. Sage,s Office
On the second floor and asked to see
Mr.. Sage. | told him that Mr.. Sage
was busy and could not be seen.
The mai persisted and continued to
ak in loud tones. Mr.. Sage, who
in the inner office. came out and
the man what was wanted.
"Thc nan demanded SI.OOO.OOC
rom Mr.. Sage, and upon being re-
used lie opened his bag, produced a
dynamite bomb and threw it at the
venerable tinancier's head.
"a terrible explosion followed.
The man who threw the bomb was
to pieces. One of our clerks
vas instantly killed and several
dangerously wounded"
Look after the clerks" said Mr..
-aldlaw to some of the officers. the
est lifting the bleeding fnancier and
carrying him down stairs.
When the form borne across the side
idewalk the crowd made all effort to
.et a closer view. but the police. who
adj by this time lost their patience
rev their clubs and brought them
own numerically on the heads with
4 reach.
Here anew danger for the millionaire
resented itself. The crowd showed
nllen signs of resenting the treatment.
it looked for a few moments A.
nough the unruly spirit in it would
nish the work that dynamite had
iiled to perform. There was a for
ard movement which narrowed the
ath through which MIR. Sage was
eing carried and for a short time il
'emed as if he must inevitably be
TO death. However, he wa.
orne safely through. and a carriage
waiting around the corner took
i'm, still bleeding and very pale, to .
home.