The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-06-27

om has reached his majority, Daley
Inc 90 years of age and Reid IL
have acknowledged conducting a
srIns campaign of incendiarism, the
onsyty loss resulting from which ag-
sgating more than 100000.
rwring the past seven months the
1urbs of Boston, particularly the
.Iss of Cambridge and Somerville and
outlying residential ward of Brigh-
have been afflicted with a verita-
,rourge OF incendiary fires, and the
n.ct produced has been almost in the
<amre Of a reign OF terror. The per-
stency with which the fires were set
IA the success with which the perpe-
ators eyaded detection were a source
great concern to the residents, and
u authorities found themselves baf-
,a In their efforts to apprehend the
brndiaries.
Method showed itself in all the fires
hi various were the theories ad-
snced as to the miscreants and the
lateral used by them. Fire after
he took place and in most of the cases
Snd secured such Roadway when dis
pyered that efforts at saving the prop
rty we're without avail, and in some
hses the departments had more than
fight to keep the fires from becoming
b the general conflagration class.
Buildings OF almost every class have
<een attacked, and even church prop
rty has not been sacred from the at
Ampts Of the incendiaries. In this
bnnection the fire In the Wood Me-
borIal church in Cambridge was set
lille services were being held In the
|1estry, and in this case, had the fire
bugs been as successful as In others,
reat loss of life would have been
kelly to occur. The rounding up OF
De two youths, however, has ended 1t
and now what we're purely matters
4 conjecture are established facts.
n The fires for which these two young
|nen are responsible, as detailed in
heir confessions, number sixty-two,
md have continued uninterruptedly
fom Aug. q to May II, and, besides
De innumerable fires In Somerville,
hcude the abattoir and stock yards
res at Brighton, the Allen & Endicott,
hs Wood and the Gale lumber yard
res, the Wood Memorial church In
cambridge, the Stearns, Washington
treet and Allston schoolhouses, Som
|ervllle's Masonic building and several
|)ouses and barns in WATERFOWL and
|Kaltham. The property loss has ag-
|5regated $4,000 and the insurance
companies have paid upward Of $780,
OO insurance as a result. These fig
tres include the 100000 fire which
Fiped out the Holt & Bugbee lumber
yard in Cambridge two years ago, the
citing Of which Daley Is said to have
eontessed was one of his first incendi-
|1ry acts.
In their method of starting a blaze
ns hre bugs were generally consistent;
1ey used candle. To Daley was al
PAYS intrusted the Office OF lighting
ne candle. Reid assisted in the pre-
lminaries. Nor were the two entirely
|qeVoid of the inventive genius. On
|ene occasion, finding themselves with
eut candle, Reid improvised one by
pacing together two pieces Of beeswax
thd running piece of rope through
mem. Their custom was to take a
<andle, cut it round near the top and
on 1t paper collar, usually about
Phe Inch from the flame. The candle
aS then placed on or near combusti-
Ne material and the flame was COM
unicated to the paper and thence to
ne material upon which the candle
1000 In the grain store fires in Som
FVille they used oily waste from the