A Juvenile Fire-Bug.
The Washington Star of Thursday has this account of a dear little fire-bug: "In the Police Court, before Judge Snell. this morning, Edward Martin, a small white boy, was charged with maliciously setting fire to the feed store of the Messrs. Galt, flour and feed dealers, near the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad depot, on Tuesday. Mr. W. M. Gait testified to finding his hay house on fire. The flames were extinguished without doing much dam age. In conversation with the boy he said he did it to see the engines run (wanted "to see the wheels go wound," a la Toddie); he seemed to be quite childlike about it. The lad had been arrested, and was at the stationhouse. No inducements were offered to him to confess. He did not seem disposed to deny the act. Lieut. Kelly testified that the boy Martin came to the station with the crowd, but was not under arrest. Another boy had been arrested for the act, hut on questioning the lad he felt convinced that the boy Martin had committed the act, and from conversation with his brother and other boys, witness felt convinced that this was not his first offense of this kind. His mother, after talking to him, came to the same conclusion, the boy having confessed to her. The case was sent to the grand jury, the bonds being fixed at $500."
The Washington Star of Thursday has this account of a dear little fire-bug: "In the Police Court, before Judge Snell. this morning, Edward Martin, a small white boy, was charged with maliciously setting fire to the feed store of the Messrs. Galt, flour and feed dealers, near the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad depot, on Tuesday. Mr. W. M. Gait testified to finding his hay house on fire. The flames were extinguished without doing much dam age. In conversation with the boy he said he did it to see the engines run (wanted "to see the wheels go wound," a la Toddie); he seemed to be quite childlike about it. The lad had been arrested, and was at the stationhouse. No inducements were offered to him to confess. He did not seem disposed to deny the act. Lieut. Kelly testified that the boy Martin came to the station with the crowd, but was not under arrest. Another boy had been arrested for the act, hut on questioning the lad he felt convinced that the boy Martin had committed the act, and from conversation with his brother and other boys, witness felt convinced that this was not his first offense of this kind. His mother, after talking to him, came to the same conclusion, the boy having confessed to her. The case was sent to the grand jury, the bonds being fixed at $500."
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