The morning call., 1891-12-05

himself of everything that might disclose
his Identity. His name had been written in
the hat, but he had cut it out with knife.
RUSSELL sAGE's STATEMENT
Russell Sage made statement to Inspec-
tor IByrnes this evening: II came out of
my office. havin been sent for, and found
man with a sat chel. lie handed me card
bearing the ma me II. d. Wilson. He said
he came fro m j. d. Rockefeller and
handed IN written letter in a sealed
envelope which was addressed to me, / found
ii was dema nd on me for the payment of
Sl250000 The letter stated that if the
money was n OF given up at once to the pre-
tor OF the let ter he would blow me, HIM
self and the en- tire Office up with dynamite.
l read the letter, and. placing it in the en-
velope, handed t back to him and turned
to 60 iuto my private Office when the ex-
ploson occurred"
Coroner MeSsemer went to the Chambers
street Hospital nd took the ante mortem
statement of Frank Robertson, an employe
Of lmbre & Co. He said he went to Sase's
Offices to get somes shares of stock and saw a
man talking TO Sage very attentiyely. The
man pulled out what looked like a pistol.
1t glittered and he put it in his right hand
overcoat pocket l knew nothing more un-
Ill yelled murder. l heard an explosion
and everybody yelled murder. Russell
Sage Jr. said that of late Mr.. Sage had re-
ceived three or four threatening letters signed
James Walsh. In one of them the writer
demanded S1,200,000, what thatsum was for
Sage could not say.
a CRANK'S DEMANDS.
The recent troubles between President
Andrews Of the New York Steam Heating
Company and the Standard Gaslight Com
pany now come into play in the case. A
shrge part of the stock in dispute belonged
TO the widows Spinola and Mannheim. These
women, Walsh said in his letters, he was
about to marry. He therefore demanded
the money to put him on their financial
level. Sage paid no attention to him.
Jay Gould was also attacked In letters
and denounced In abusive terms. The
writer threatened Sage's life, but no atten-
tion was paid to it, as all who knew about
the letters believed him harmless crank"
TO use young Sage'a own words.
IDENTIFIED THE HEAD.
Russell Sage saw the head of d. A. Will
son, the man who threw the bomb, and
identified it as belonging to the man who
had come to his office and demanded money.
Inspector Byrnes took the CHASTITY, CORY
head in a basket TO Mr. Sage's house, and
together with Mum. carried it to Mr.. Sage's
bedroom. The instant the magnate, who
was lying in bed, saw the head, he said,
That's the head Of the man."
WILSON'S CRAZY CAREER.
ALBANY N. ", Dec. 4.-The dynamite
crank is thought to be Hiram D. Wilson,
aged 45, an escaped lunatic and native of
Glcns Fails, Warren County. Wilson es-
capped previously from the Middleton and
other asyumS. The worst signs of insanity
developed fourteen years ago, when he kept
the Bolton House on Lake George. He was
of late years talking OF making horses 60
faster than they nave ever gone, and Of
patent rights. Wilson, after eight terms in
insane asylums, was discharged as cured
or escaped. lie generally celebrated his
freedom by making attempts to kin some
one who refused to meet his demands for
money. Several years ago he attempted to
kill 4 man whom he had asked for money to
set him up in business. On another occa-
sion. when W. J. Arkell was in Albany,
Wilson made demand on him, threatened
to kill him, and even attempted to assault
him in his Office. He had also threatened
the life of Goodwin Brown, one of the State
Lunacy Commissioners. Wilson was ar
rested here about a year ago for threaten
ing to kill some one.
RUSSELL sAGE's CAREER.
Russell Sage was born in Oneida County,
New York State, August 4, 1916 He was
educated in the public schools, after which
he engaged in mercantile pursuits in Troy.
In 1871 be was elected Alderman of that
city, reelected continuously until 1913. also
serving for seven years as Treasurer of
Rensselaer, County. He was elected to Con-
gress as a Wing and served, with re-elec-
tion, from December 3, 1858, to March, 1857.
He was the first person to advocate on the
floor Of Congress the purchase Of Mount
Vernon by the Government Subsequently
he settled in New York City and engaged
in the business of selling stock privileges
in Wall street At the same time he be-
came interested in railroads and secured
stocks in Western roads, notably the Mil
waukee and st. Paul, of which he was
President and Vce-Presldent for twelve
years. BY disposing Of these Investments
as the smaller roads were absorbed by the
trunk lines he became wealthy.
OF late years ne has been closely asso-
ciated with Jay Gould in the management
of the Wabash, st. Louis and Pacific, the
Missouri Pacific, the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western and the st. Louis and San Fran
cisco railroads, the American Cab'e Com
pany, the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany and the Manhattan consolidated sys-
tenn Of elevated railroads in New York City,
in all OF which corporations he is Director.
He has been a Director and Vice. President
in the Importers and Traders National
Bank for the past twenty years, and also a
Director in the Merchants Trust Company
and in the Fifth-avenue Bank of New York
CITY