Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-06
BLOWN TO FRAGMENTS
Little Left of Man Who Threw
Bomb in Philadelphia.
NITRO GLYCERINE WAS USED
Police Seeking to Surely Establish
His Identity.
FIFTEEN PERSONS INJURED
Bank Offices Wrecked, Cashier Killed
and Messengers Eyes Blown Out
Made Demand for Money.
NITRO GLYCERINE WAS USED
CITIZEN PERSONS INJURED

! PHILADELPHIA, January 5.-The police
are making every effort to establish to a
| certainty the identity of the man who said
| ne was O. Z. Williams of this city but who
| is supposed to have been r. Steele of Gar
ner, Iowa, who exploded a bomb in the ex-
ecutive offices of the Fourth Street National
Bank shortly before noon today, killing
himself and the cashier, w. T. McIear
| wounding about fifteen others two of them
| perhaps fatally, and wrecking the banks
| offices. The man hurled the deadly missile
| after he had been turned down by both
| Cashier McLear and Richard ii. Rushton,
the banks president, on an application for
| a loan of 5000.
The cashiers body was frghtfully mutt
| lated and the bomb thrower was blown to
pieces particles of his flesh being plas-
| tered over the ceiling twenty feet from the
| floor. Only small piece of the bomb shell
| was found, but experts gave IT their
opinion that II contained nitro-g lycerine,
probably much as six ounces Of it, q
| quantity sufficient to wreck the entire
| eight-story building if its force was con-
fined.
The Fatally Injured.
| The persons who may be fatally injured
: are:
William Cramp. a negro messenger who
| lives at 237 South Hutchinson street this
| city.
| Thomas B. Rutter, a clerk, who is thought
| to be suffering from a fractured skull.
Cramp who guarded the door leading into
President Rushton's office and who
standing near the man when he threw the
| bomb had both eyes blown out and was
| badly cut by flying glass, the flesh on his
arms being torn almost into shreds.
Those injured seriously are:
IIor Danl- of CO n CT
a special officer of the bank, decorations OF
the head, face and body.
Harper Mercer, 3d. North 2oth street,
ledger clerk: lacerated face and arms.
William Wright, office boy. !'24 y. 42d
street. possible fracture OF the skull.
Eugene McIlhone, 2l53 North 32d street,
secretary to Cashier McLear, badly cut
about the head.
j. P. A. Hofback. assistant to Second Vice
President B. NJ. FAIRIES, cut about the mead.
Angelo S. Dominica, 610 South 10th street,
patron of the bank; decorations Of the
head and body.
William A. McCanney, 1447 Louden street,
Germantown, clerk; broken arm and hand
and lacerated scalp.
1t was about II 20 o'clock when the bomb
thrower walked into the Bulltt building
from the 4th street entrance. The offices or
the bank are on the ground floor just to
the right of the entrance. The man walked
through the business lobby of the bank past
the telers windows to the executive offices,
which in the southeast corner or the
building. The lobby opens into a waiting
room. At the eastern end OF this waiting
room is the cashier offices. looking out on
Harmony street The two are separated
only by a heavy wooden counter. n door
on the south side of the waiting room leads
into the offices of the president and the
first vice president, and on the north sac
of the waiting room is the Office of the sec
ond vice president, screened off by parti-
ton of glass and wood, and the banks mn
mense steel vault, which Is encased In big
granite blocks.
Excited Suspicion.
The man evidently had looked over the
ground before, for he walked straight to
the waiting room without asking for any
directions. In the waiting room was the
| colored messenger, VIM. Cramp. The
| caller was a broad-shouldered man, appar-
| emily about thirty-fve years old, and fully
| six feet tall. He dressed in black,
wearing a SLOUGH hat and short top coat.
His face had a pinched expression and his
eyes were wild. His clothes were untldy,
| and he had several days growth OF beard
on his face. Altogether his appearance was
such that it excited the suspicion of the
| colored messenger and clerks who saw him
enter the waiting room. Some think now
| the man was foreigner, out he spoke t-uS-
lish fiuently.
| negotiate a loan. and that President Rush-
ton was the only man with whom he would
transact his business. Cramp tried to put
him off but the big man refused and
seated himself on a lounge. The messenger
made one two trips into the presidents
office and when he finally reported that he
| could not get rid of the man Rush on told
| him to send him in. 1t then about
| 11:45 O'Clock, and President Rushton was
| up to his eyes in work that he wanted to
| finish before the bank closed. As the man
was entering the presidents office First
! Vice President E. F. Shanbacker left. Pres
| ident Rushton told after the explosion what
occurred in the room.
Il had my head down at the desk, SAID
| he, land didn't pay much attention TO the
mans appearance at first He spoke IN a
mumbling manner, but | managed To mako
| out that he wanted to borrow 5000. He
| held out a paper which think was HE
| insurance policy and offered ii as security,
! 1 told him that the bank could not loan
| on that collateral. He added that he was
honest and would pay the interest an
nually and return the loan at the end OF
| five years"
President Rushton said the man persisted
| and began to act strangely, but made no
president. the bomb-thrower pulled two or
| three photographs from his pocket, and.
holding them out, said:
Additional Security.
See they are my wife and daughters.
They are honest enough that is sufficient
security"
| President Rushton asked the man where
| he lived. and he said In a Philadelphia
| suburb. He had sent in piece OF paper
with the name &c. T. Williams written on
| it before he entered the presidents office.
Mr.. Rushton told him finally that it was
| out of the question for the bank to lend him
money without even being assured of his
| identity. He advised the man to get some
| body who knew him and return to the bank
some other day. The president hoped In
this way to get rid of him, but when the
man continued to insist that he must have
| the Sc, 900 today the president excused him
self for moment and left the caller sit
ting in his Office. Stepping out into the
waiting room, President Rushton asked the
colored messenger to get the man out OF
the Offices. Then the president walked
through the second vice presidents ofiicea .
and out of sight into the banks general
Offices
The colored messenger told Williams"