Vamp, Confessed Firebug, Sets $300,000 Blazes
Edwin (Wimpy) Meier, a volunteer fireman who succumbed to an “urge” to start fires, was jailed April 9th in Anchorage, Alaska, on charges of having caused a dozen blazes that resulted in damages amounting to more than $300,000.
Meier, 20, in a signed statement said, “I knew when I set those fires it was wrong, but all of a sudden an urge comes over me....” He was at liberty under $5,000 bond following arraignment in U.S. commissioner’s court, Anchorage, on charges of arson involving the most costly blaze, that of the Auditorium.
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