The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-08-08


him TO pile them up very solid in the
vault Perren wanted to know if the
vault could not be saved someway, and
Robinson said he would not guarantee
anything could be saved Then Per-
rem remarked: I'm only afraid Of one
thing and vthat is not everything will
be burned so as to leave no traces of
the preparations behind. If this job is
a good one l have another $780, 900 job
on hand for you"
In erder4to be sure that no workmen
would saow up Mr.. Bloch sent all the
men 81 ON a fishing trip Our first
work vas to put up our screw hooks. We
found some forty new tin buckets there.
We hung these buckets on the strings
which ran through these screw hooks
in such shape that they were partly
tipped over, and all were hung on the
same string and SO arranged that when
the string was burned off anywhere all
the pals would drop at once. While
we were fixing the buckets Abe Levine
came il. He said he knew all about it
and that everything was all right.
Then Bloch came in and said that the
Waterman was all right. Levine went
away and did not show up again until
about 10 o'clock, when he brought in
some food for us. We we're using Lee
vines lantern. He demonstrated and
said it would show light to outsiders.
He got us a BULBS eye then.
The fire was to occur Saturday night
at Il o'clock. We got tired out before
the preparations were ready and could
not complete the job, so we laid down
and slept in the factory that night.
Bloch came in the next morning and
asked: Why didn't it go?" We
told him we could not complete ar
rangement.
Then arrangements were made TO
get up a story about the horse and
wagon outside. l made up receipt
for load of rags, horse, harness and
wagon and gave it to him. That
would account for the rig being there.
Then we went up stairs and made
draft holes in the floor above. While
we were at this Schaefer appeared.
Robinson took him into the
office and told him Bloch would make
matters 1ght with him. Schaefer re-
fused to help and stepped outside.
Bloch had a lot of excelsior bales
opened and this was scattered all over
the first floor. Then we laid our
troughs all around the rooms in a
continuous line. These were for the
sawdust saturated with benzine, to
which the fuses led. We filled all the
buckets with benzine, put a half bar
rel Of the benZine on truck and tipped
it partly over, and put the sawdusU in
the other barrel to saturate it. This
work was all done about o'clock.
We put the fuses in place. These were
twelve inches long, and would burn an
hour. We were to set these and take
the $50 train for Milwaukee. Robin
son lit cigarette and handed it to me-
| | lit fuse with it and went on to
the next. Robinson started out while
| went on lighting fuses. All of a sud-
den [ heard a great noise like the
striking of a sudden hurricane. | found
myself surrounded with fame. / was
blown against door. | saw catch
to it and slipped it, and was imme-
diately blown out several feet. land
ed on my knees. Jumping UP began
to run. was badly burned and the
pain was SO intense thrust my hands
into the sand to cool them off. l saw
a man in a buggy. l begged him to
take me to a drug store. He did so
and while l had my hands dressed l
was placed under arrest by Officer
Feidschau.
At this point the court adjourned
until 2 o'clock p. N.
During the noon hour big cOmmo-
ton was caused by the reported disap-
pearance of one of the defendants.
The police were at once notified and
a lively scrimmage began to find him.
He was located quite easily in a saloon
where he had sat down. He had not
tried to get away.
At the afternoon session the witness
was turned over to the defense for
cross examination. W. G.. Forrest
conducted this. He went over every
inch of the ground in a severe attack
on the credibility Of the witness. He
sprung few surprises on the prosecu-
ton by attempting to show that Rose
now and Cowie we're in deal by which
they were to get big sum of money
from the insurance companies for max
ing )ut this case. Mr.. Quarles met the
issue forcibly and Justice Slater ruled
the testimony out. At press time Ros-
enow was still under the fire of Mr..
Forrest.
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