Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-03-06
F|R[BUGS ARE BUSY.
Efforts to Destroy Build.
ingS at Fall River.
POLICE MAKE AN ARREST.
Four Attempts Made to Burn the
Richardson House.

FALL RNER, Mass, March o.-Business
men and tie police are greatly excited.
About s:4 o'clock Saturday evening
alarms were rung In from private box
l42, calling the fire department To the
brick tenement building owned by the
Border City mill, at the extreme northern
end of the city.
Mark Bareham, a man about 90 years OF
age, had been beating his wife in shock.
ing manner, using a hammer for the
purpose. She was drawn away from him
by neighbors, and shortly afterward a fire
was found in the tenement where the
quarrel had been going Oh. The damage
amounted to about $500.
Officers McDermott and Burnes investi
gated the surroundings Of the tenement,
and found kerosene ON the floor, also q
broken lamp. Bareham was placed under
arrest on the charge of assaulting his wife,
and the officers are at work endeavoring
To learn just how much cause there is for
the suspicion of incendiarism which they
now hold against the prisoner.
Another attempt was made to burn the
Durfee block Saturday night by setting q
fire under the stairway leading into the
block from the Central House. Washing.
ton Barney, one Of the lodgers in the
place, has been locked up on the suspicion
Of having made the attempt Mrs. Jennie
Arnold was going up the stairway into the
Central House where she saw a man who
said he
Guessed There Was q Fire.
Mrs Arnold told two men, who found
quite blaze, which they extinguished
The incendiary had rolled together a pile
of old papers and set fire to them. A part
of the match was later found by the police.
Mrs. Arnold described the man she saw
to Officer Reagan, who brought man
named Riley 10 the station, but afterward
allowed him to 20. Later the officer took
Barney into custody. Mrs. Arnold could
not positively identify him as the man she
saw. Barney is well known character
about town. He was arrested about nine
years ago for disturbance of the peace.
The police consider that he is not a very
strong minded fellow. Detective Feeney
has been working on the case all day, but
thus far he has not been able to fasten the
crime on the prisoner.
About the time Of Barney's arrest Officer
Ludden appeared at the central station
carrying the charred remains Of potato
bag
Soaked with Turpentine.
While patrolling his beat on Pleasant
street, near Fourth, he was approached 10y
some young men, members of the Elite
club, who said they had just put out fire
In a shed in the rear of NJ. II. Kearney's
saloon, about three blocks from city hall.
There he found the bag. There is nc
doubt another attempt had been made 70
start a fire where it would almost certainly
have resulted in a serious conflagration had
1t not been discovered early.
There is no clue to the person or persons
who attempted To fire Carrolton hall Fri.
day night. 1t was reported to Detective
Feeny by William Durfee that reliable
witnesses saw two men on the gutter of
the Durfee block while the fire alarm was
ringing Thursday night.
Yesterday noon Walter Douglass ran
into the central police station and said he
had
Discovered Another Fire
at the Richardson House, very near tie
Central House, where the fire was started
last evening The police found some
matches and quantity Of burned paper
under the stairway.
At 7:30 o'clock last night the fourth at
tempt was made TO burn the Richardson
House. The fire was started In a cupboard
at the end Of the main hallway. The
doors Of the cupboard were charred con.
siderably, but no great damage was done.
Officers Ferguson and Reagan found
quantity Of burned paper and hay In the
cupboard
Other Fires.
East Bridgewater, Mass: A Catholic
church and adjoining buildings. Loss
$4,000.
Cambridge, Mass: The Grant building,
one Of the principal blocks Of the city
Loss $4,000.
Covington, KY: Central Christian
church and several tobacco works. Loss
nearly 100000
ine UeA7H nECUnU.