New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-04
TWO FEMALE aFIRRBUGs.v
YOUNG WOMEN CONFESS 10 ARGOS.
ACTING LIKE WILD cREAruans M rurrn e,.,s.
-EEJoTISG THE v1AMEs AND rnx
PANrc THEY CsEATrn

PANfC THEY CREATED.
Henrietta Frances Day. age 8, and Emma I.
Day, age %, were arrested on Tuesday nishs st
summit N. j., on charge Of arson few weekn
ago the fine Kandolph block, which cost SEQ. 900
was totally destroyed by nre Other buildings
have been burned in mysterious way. Police.
man Kelly suspected the Day girls, and called
them to bis Office, where henrietta confessed
thai on March 20 she ard her sister went 10
the apartments Of Susan Campbell, in the pest
onice building, and saw q baby sleeping In
cot They opened closet, poured kerosene on q
bundle OF carpetngs, and then Emma struck
three matches on the wall and SET fire TO the
rags. They left the baby asleep in the room, and
went to the room Of their sister, Mn Henry
Ardell, in the same building and waited untiI
the alarm was given. Then they ran out and
enjoyed the terror Of the inmates and the crask~
ling Of the flames.
They tried to set on Hre Temperance Han
They were also concerned in fires at PAinfeld
and other New-Jersey towns They said yestcr-
day that they could not resist the temptation
to set houses on fire, because they liked 10 see
big blaze. The girls were arrested. and while
being taken 70 Jail Henrietta, the younger, broke
away and raced like q deer across the fields
She was chased for more than a mile before being
captured. Her sister Emma was quiet After
Henrietta was put In her cell she smashed
windows and tried to batter down the door with
o large stone. Thomas Britt entered the room 70
disarm her and was feied to the floor like q log.
Britt got the stone away after struggle and
escaped from the tigres& Emma only sat on the
cot and applauded her sister.
Policeman McGrath had TO remain in ths iail
with the prisoners all night. while policeman was
on guard outside. The girls took sticks and
poked them through tho iron bars Of their cell
and upset the stove in the barrow corridor.
But for the presence Of McGrath the place would
have been in a blaze. Yesterday the girls glcated
over their exploit In Tightening people and making
blaze for the fremen Henrietta said she did
to places because she liked to do 1t. She tried
to wrench her iron bedstead apart TO get tool
70 break an opening in the Jail. She begged for
matches, for she wanted to set the place on fire.
man passed stick through the window and
she demolished every pane OF glass in the sash
Because there was no fire in the place during
the night the two girls wrestlcd like trained
athletes TO keep warm. The younger girl easily
threw her elder sister. Neither girl used profane
or indecent language, and both are good.Iooking
They have been employed as domestic servants.
The girls admitted that they were the authors
Of the fire at Blake's laundry in Plainileld for
which young William Van Ness Is now serving
q ten-years' sentence at Trenton. They refused
however, TO say whether or not they were
responsible for the burning OF the Randolph block
When arraigned before Justice Scott last night
charges which were there made against fhem
based on their own confessions They were with
difficulty taken to the County Jail at Elizabeth
and locked up to await trial