Setting Fires for Excitement
The remarkable, and, fortunately, unusual incidents which culminated in the conviction and sentencing of six members of the Darien, Conn., fire department to prison terms of varying severity, as reported in our last issue, suggests considerable food for thought.
The cause, apparently, of these young fellows’ rash acts was wholly a desire for excitement. There certainly was no pecuniary gain involved—in fact one of the young men destroyed property belonging to a near relative. This was according to their own confessions.
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