Corralling the Firebugs

Corralling the Firebugs

Six alleged members of the arson ring in Chicago have been indicted by the grand jury of that city, as follows: Beniamin Fink, confessed firebug; Joseph Clarke, public fire insurance adjuster; Harry Brown, public fire insurance adjuster; Julius Zar, public fire insurance adjuster; lacob Ross, clothier, and Solomon Ross, clothier. The Ross brothers recently were arrested in Omaha and are fighting extradition. The indictments charge arson and burning to defraud, and are based on an alleged incendiary fire at 3715 West Twenty-sixth street on December 17, 1912. The scene of the fire was the clothing store owned by the above-mentioned Ross brothers. In New York Judge Rosalsky sentenced Max Kleinberg, a tailor, to Sing Sing for not less than three years. Kleinberg got “Issy the Painter” to set a fire in his shop. “Issy” was by no means unwilling. and on the night of January 11. 1912, took his bottle of benzine and a few old rags, placed them in a corner of the store at Amsterdam avenue and 174th street, touched a match to them and waited for the arrival of the firemen. The tailor had taken out a policy for $1,200; Charles S. Freeman adjusted the loss. Klenberg's share was $400; Issy" got $50 for his trouble. The blaze was so well started before the fire apparatus arrived that the building, which contained eight tenement apartments, was nearly destroyed, hut no lives were lost. Winnipeg, Manitoba, having suffered severely of late from an unusual number of fires, ieels relieved at the arrest of a firebug who confesses to having started 73 fires in the past 18 months. He has been sent to a lunatic asvlum

Six alleged members of the arson ring in Chicago have been indicted by the grand jury of that city, as follows: Beniamin Fink, confessed firebug; Joseph Clarke, public fire insurance adjuster; Harry Brown, public fire insurance adjuster; Julius Zar, public fire insurance adjuster; lacob Ross, clothier, and Solomon Ross, clothier. The Ross brothers recently were arrested in Omaha and are fighting extradition. The indictments charge arson and burning to defraud, and are based on an alleged incendiary fire at 3715 West Twenty-sixth street on December 17, 1912. The scene of the fire was the clothing store owned by the above-mentioned Ross brothers. In New York Judge Rosalsky sentenced Max Kleinberg, a tailor, to Sing Sing for not less than three years. Kleinberg got “Issy the Painter” to set a fire in his shop. “Issy” was by no means unwilling. and on the night of January 11. 1912, took his bottle of benzine and a few old rags, placed them in a corner of the store at Amsterdam avenue and 174th street, touched a match to them and waited for the arrival of the firemen. The tailor had taken out a policy for $1,200; Charles S. Freeman adjusted the loss. Klenberg's share was $400; Issy" got $50 for his trouble. The blaze was so well started before the fire apparatus arrived that the building, which contained eight tenement apartments, was nearly destroyed, hut no lives were lost. Winnipeg, Manitoba, having suffered severely of late from an unusual number of fires, ieels relieved at the arrest of a firebug who confesses to having started 73 fires in the past 18 months. He has been sent to a lunatic asvlum