Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-06-05
FIREBUGS ARRESTED.
An Organized Gang Is Being
 Run to Earth by Detectives.
OPERATED IN SEVERAL STATES.
Three Alleged Members of the Gang Are
 Now Locked Up, and Seven More Will Be Behind the Bars-They Are Said to Have Caused $500. GOO Damage by Setting Fires.


 Behind the Bars-They Are Said to Have Caused $500. .OOO Damage by Setting Fires.
 NEW YORK, June 5.-The police and fro department vigorous crusade against the 1irebugs culmiiSated in the arrest of three suspects. They were arrested on in- formation given to the district attorney by men who confess to have been their con federates. The prisoners are:
 Isaac Fucker, a prosperous tailor, who lives in a fine house in Union Hill, N. J.
 Abraham Krone of 236 Garfield place, Brooklyn.
 Morris Schoenholz of 142 Lewis street, a we'll to do merchant.
 Fucker was swinging in hIs hammock in the garden of his house in Union Hill when two detectives entered the yard and said, Mir. Fucker you are under arrest |"
 Whom Mrs Fucker heard of this she be- camo hysterical. Fucker refused to come to Now York without a requisition, and was locked up in the Union Hill jail.
 At about the same time Abraham Krone was arrested at the corner of Bond street and Broadway, whero he was met by De- tectivo Sergeants O'Brien and McCauley.
 'Wo arrest you on a charge of arson, ' said o O'Brien.
 Sir" exclaimed Krone, indignantly, this is an outrage
 "Woll, said MoCauley, "never mind, but come along. We'll discuss that later. ,"
 Two In the Tombs.
 Krone was hurried to the district attor- ncy's uflico and was afterward taken be- fore Recorder Golf.
 This man is innocont,' said Jacob Der lingor, krone's lawyer, but as l under stand that no indictment has yet been found demand an immediate hearing be- fore your honor"
 He is held,' said Recorder Golf, "in $4, 900 bail to await examination before mo on Thursday"
 Krone and Schoenholz were unable to furnish bail and wero locked up in the Tombs.
 There are three charges against Fucker It is alleged that on April laS he set fro to the storo of his brother Abraham at 567 Tenth avenue. His wife, so it Is said, knew of tho plan and objected strenuously Thoreupon Fucker is said to have arranged with Sohoenholz to do tho job. But the latter woakenod and so Fucker, 1t is dc Clarcd, set fro himself. It was q tenement house building, with a clothing stOro be- low
 When tho firomen arrived upon tho scene they found tho sturo ablaZe, and before il was oXtinguished tho place was completely guttod. The place was well insured. Zuck- CT is also charged with having assisted Krone and Schoenholz in setting fire to their stores, each man owning store apiece
 Abraham Krone kept tailor store in Park row, near Bnxtor street. On the night of Fob. l, lS91. an explosion was heard, and soon aftur the whole interior was ablaze. The tircmcn made little prog rcSs with water and tho place was burned out almost completely. krono collected a heavy insurance.
 SuhuenhOlI Is charged with boing the leader 0! tEo gang. llo kept n clothing storo at 266 Division street, which iS a tenement. On Jan. 3, 1899, a fro occurred in tho place at night The store was ru ined before the firomen could control the blaze and largo insurance was collected.
 Others to Be Arrested.
 According to the police. these thrce mon belong to gang of flrebugs which is the most dangerous of all. It Is charged that, not content with burning out stores in Now York city. they have worked Phila- delphia, Washington and New Jersey on an organized plan.
 Besides tho three arrested there are sev- en others. some of whom aIe under sur veillance and liablo to be arrested at any moment. It is said that when the facts all como out they will tell the story of a re- markable gang, which includes in its membership nll manner of smen, from the 1 plain crook to the rich fro fiend.
 Fire Marshal Mitchell is authority fol the statement that this gang was tho prin | cipal factor in tho destruction of between 1 $5UO, 900 and S75O, GOO worth of property. | The other two 1irebug gangs which have i been broken up recently are the Grauel and tho Ilirschkopf. Grauer was a fire in surance adjustcr. He was recently con victod of having employed people to sci | fire to houses in which he had established friends in business with dummy stock i IIo was sentenced three months ago tC serve D years in state prison. Two of hi; assistants, sarah Silhormeistor and Loul: l Ruthman wcre also convicted and TO coivcd sentences of 25 and l1 years TO 1 spcotively.