Connecticut western news., 1891-12-10


 RUSSELL SAGE.
 From a photograph taken when he wore . payment of S1, ,250, GOO. The letter stated that if the money was not given up at once to the presenter of the letter that he would blow me, himself and the entire place up with dynamite. I read the letter, and plac- ing it in the envelope, handed it back to him and turned to go into my private office, when the explosion occurred"
 The Man with the Satchei.
 The story gathered from other sources is that at 12:15 o'clock a small well dressed man, apparently about thirty-five years old carrying leather bag, called at Russell Sage's offices and asked to see MT. Sage
 MT. Sage's clerk told him that MT. Sage was busy and could not be seen. The man persisted, and continued to talk in loud tone. MT. Sage, who was in an inner office. came out to see what was the matter.
 Then followed the demand and the re- fusal. At this Wilson made an angry gest- ure, and raising the satchel at arms length 'sYou will nots" he said; ''then here goes.''
 An explosion followed which almost raised the roof from the building, and MT Sage was blown clear through the doorway of his private office and across the room He landed in a bank of rubbish. Those in Mr. Sage's office at the time of the explosion were MT. Sage, his brother-in-law, Colonel J. J. Slocum; c. E. James, of 7 Nassau street; B. F. Norton of Far Rockaway; C. w. Osborn, of Brooklyn, and MT. Menzies attaches of the office, Frank Robinson, of Bergen Point; messenger boy and the bomb thrower.
 All of these were either killed or more or less severely injured. The wounded ones were taken to O'Connelps drug store across the way where their injuries attended to.
 The Wrecked Offices.
 The scene in the wrecked office of Russell Sage after the explosion was one of ruin and chaos. The large main office has a smaller office on each side. The explosion apparently occurred in the main office and expended it's force westward toward the larger of the smaller offices, and through it to the offices of the elevs.3ed railway.
 In the hallway outside the door leading to MT. Sage's main office was found the mangled body of Wilson, the bomb thrower. What was left by the explosion of the mad mans body was laid out in Undertaken Duffy's establishment, at S2 Greenwich street. It was not much The head was there, blackened, but neither cut nor dis figured in any way. It was cut off at the top of the neck, and looked for all the
  forty years old, with full beard that might have been long, but was now burned close to chin and neck.
 The list of the dead, so far as now known is as follows
 Wilson, Lloyd or Walsh the bomb thrower: head severed from his body; instantly killed. Benjamin F. Norton. clerk in Russell Sage's office, twenty years old; died at Chambers Street hospital at l3O p. m., of internal in juries.
 The Wounded. Russell Sage millionaire of 5O6 Fifth avenue: wounded slightly in the head, neck and hands; | splinters in his leg removed to his home. Joseph J.. Slocum, of 37 East Sixty fifth | street. MT. Sages brother-in-law; cut in head and neck by broken glass; His wounds were dressed at O'Connelrs phafmacy. William R. Laidlaw, thirty-five years old of | Al West Twenty-second street, clerk with John | Bloodgood 6 Co., of the Mills building. Slightly | injured in the arms and legs Removed to St. Vincent's hospital.
 s. G. Calhoun. of 165 Dean street, Brooklyn, | telegraph operator to Washington E. Connor. | Slightly injured in the right side of head. | Wounds were dressed at the Chambers Street | hospital and he sent home. c. w. Osborn, ffty-two years old, te 196 Berkeley place, Brooklyn, secretary and cashier | to Russell Sage. At Chambers Street hospital l with lacerated neck. Not expected to live. 1 Frank Robertson, nineteen years old, of Key port, N. J., clerk with Imbrie & Co.,, 56 Ex- change place. At Chambers Street hospital suffering from many injuries including double | compound fracture at the base of the skull. | Not expected to live.
 B. F. Norton, who was employed as a clerk in MT. Sage's office was blown through the window and into the street. He was | taken to hospital, where he died without regaining consciousness.
 Frank Robertson, a brokers clerk, was | fatally injured Both eyes were gone and he was horribly disfgured. He was em- ployed by N. M Inbrie & Co.,, 65 Broadway, and had gone to deliver some stock to Rus sell Sage.
 Inspector Byrnes at once put his men to work on the case. The police had gathered all fragments of the bomb thrower, some of them nothing more than shred of cloth with a bit of flesh glued to it. The inspector took the severed head of the dynamiter tc Mir. Sage's residence and requested Dr Mum to prepare MT. Sage for the ordeal o identifying the head of the crank.
 Before the head Was shown Inspector Byrnes asked MT Sage for a description O the mans face, and he described the heaC accurately. The basket was uncovered ane Dr Mum held up the head MT. Sage hal rose in bed, looked at the face intently for few seconds and then said:
 "That is the person whom 1 saw with th' valise and note"
 The head was put back in the basket ant the inspector departed, taking it with him
 Who Was the Crank?
 The dynamite crank was at first though to be Hiram D Wilson, aged forty-hve, al escaped lunatic and native of Glens Falls Warren county. Wilson had previousl, escaped from the Middletown and Utic; asylums A dispatch from Utica last nigh stated that Wilson was sleeping soundly il his bed at the State hospital in that city.
 Another Bomb Thrower Bobs Up.
 NEW YORK. Dec 7.-An epidemic Q cranks, on murder bent, has struck this city The first of these made his appearance week ago Sunday when John George Rot fired three shots at Rev John Hall. D D. the eminent divine Fortunately hls air was poor and the reverend gentleman wa spared The second crank to appear wa Wilson, who, on Friday, startled the worl | -In ~H.-1 Irs1