Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-08-04
SAYS THE FIRE WAS SET,
Alleged Conspiracy In the Chi
cago Disaster Revealed.
DUGGAN BEFORE THE GRAND JURY
He Says He Confessed That the Warehouse
Was Fired to Conceal the Wholesale
Stealing of q Gang Of RoIbcrs-Soot.
lands Day at the Fair

Was Fired to Conceal the Wholesale
Stealing of Gang Of Robbcrs-seot.
lands Day at the Fair.
CHICAGO, Aug. / Evidence OF startling
nature concerning the coN storage ware
house fire Was taken by the grand jury.
The witness was John Joseph Duggan,
formerly Stony Island avenue saloon
keeper and the man who first told Of the
footing of the cold storage warehouse and
Its firing by gang OF robbers.
He was flushed and excited with the in.
QUESTION he had undergone. but said he
had made a clean breast OF it all. Accord.
ing TO Mr.. Duggau there were $50 men con.
cerned ia the conspiracy and he declared
that he had given the names 10 the grand
jury. He said that from the oIenins OF the
exposition right up TO the time of the fire
goods We're stolen or at least removed from
the cold storage warehouse by the wagon
load. The wagons used were express wag.
ons generally, though he had known of
water carts going out the gates with tanks
filled with hams, bottles of wine and other
stock.
Who removed these goods was asked
Employees Of the cold storage ware
house and gang that lives on Stony Island
avenue Just outside the grounds"
Did you give evidence that would i'm
plicate criminally the persons who removed
the goods"
Yes, there'll he sensation when this
whole thing comes ont. There are about
$50 implicated have given the names to
the jury"
More witnesses in regard to the affair
will be called.
ScotIanTs Day Today.
Scotland day at the fair began early in
the morning and will continue until late
tonight. Many thousands of the sons and
daughters of Aud Scotia are now on the
grounds. The New York building is the
general headquarters. and there their vari-
GUS receptions are being held. There was
parade OF bare kneed highlanders and 100
or more ptpers through the grounds and a
meeting in festival hall This evening a
fine programme OF Scotch music will be
given in festival hall.
Colored people from all parts of the
country will visit the fair on Aug. Is, this
day having been set aside for the African
race The excursion committee has Sc
cured concessions from several railroads
and excursions will be run from Louisville
other southern cities and intermediate
points, There will also be excursions from
the east and west.
The exercises planned for this occasion
will be in festival hall. beginning at s
o'clock. Sissietts Jones. the Black Patti;
Harry Burleigh. teacher in the National
Conservatory of Music, New York; Sidney
Woodward of Boston and Mime. SelikA
will he the soloists.
A specially trained chorus OF 100 voices
the original Fisk jubilee singers and the
exposition orchestra will also participate
There will he scenes from the opera of
Uncle Toms Cabin" composed by a
young negro, Will NJ. Cook, All the music
will be by colored authors
In the evening Fred Douglass will pre-
side and deliver the Grafton. Addresses
will also be made by John NJ. LanEston of
Virginia, X Bruce Of Mississippi,
Charles s Morris of New York and other
prominent colored orators