St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1876-12-29
Incendiary Fires at Laconia.
ARREST OF THE SUPPOSED CULPRIT.

ING ana Ell! tllnS tue ouSltSiiloh''i
Church in this place, with intent to set
fire to it, has, as would he expected,
caused the most intense excitement
through the entire community. In the
stores and hotels and all other public
places this evening the arrest of Dlckry
is the absorbing theme of conversation.
The general belief of the citizens Is that
Dickcy is guilty, but that he Is only
one of gang of inccndlaricS.
Since the thirteenth of October last.
:, u,Iiod of Il little more than ten weeks.
thirteen fires have broken out i'll this
yiIIoue. the most or all of which were
considered the work of inccndiaIic>.
The first fire was at midnight on the
I3th of October. when the sash and
blind factory of Merrill * Pcal>on Wis
burned. involving Il loss of Sl0lW.
-Four hours later, on the same night.
the elegant Free Baptist Chulch was
DESTROYED. and the loss WAS Sl3.O'W.
Soon afterwards there We're two fires ut
different times in Pitman X Triton :
factory. causing a loss of : 100.
On the night of November 30 the clc-
CANT Unitarian Church WAS fired III
three places, but fortunately the flames
were cXtiuguiShcd after Il damage of
only 5000. On that same night. before
the people had all got home from the
fire at the Unitarian Church, the North
| congregational Church WAS set on iIrr.
for which crime Dickey Is now under
arrest. Luckily. the North Church fire
was discovered and cNtimgu;shcd with
out loss. In addition to the above
there were up to December :. seven
other fires in various parts of the vii
lagc, all of which We're fortunately put
ont with tritiing loss. The small fires
were mostly in dwelling houses. The
only system pursued 10y the imccndia-
rcS seemed to he II persistent attempt
| to destroy churches.
\ most Nigilaut course of action WAS
taken 10y the authorities. \ large p0-
| lice force patrolcd the streets at night.
and the members of th,. liIr depart
mrmt were warned 10 take every pre-
caution to Ice in readiness Ia respond
promptly when called upon. At the
same time every citizen who realized
/ that his home and family were in dan
ycr every night hccImc. ~ II were. "a
private detective. and aided a> tar ~
/ po>>iblc the regular police. the Board
of Sclcctmcu offered a reward of = IWh
tui the arrest and comNictium of the in
ccudiaric>.
The services of Moses Sargent. I'll,
/ Boston detective. were also secuted.
/ During the past two weeks Mr.. Sargent
has been quietly and pcI>i>remtlN III
work. aided hN the local authorities
and the work of the detective resulted
in the arrc>t OF Dickcy yesterday after
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