Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1896-12-15
HE iMCENC AIRY CAUGHT
Waiter Kermeen Arrested ~ Ex
Sheriff Uinck at tn. Schooi n use

Ultic at it, central sch ul buliiing,
whore = nd MAJ e an en- renee with
tn. intent of firing tht building
For some week. past Mr.. Uirick has
been employed to watch the school
buildinE with Il view OF a-certnining
who was setting the school house on
fire.
About two o'clock in me morning
some one came prowling about the
building, hut who ever it WAS stepped
| on some Loose boards which caused
considerable noise and the party dis
appeared.
About twenty minutes Of five Mr.
Ulrick heard a nois" at a window,
Someone from the outside pushed up
the window with a long pole and
after the window WAS up d lag OF
kindling wood was throw in n
her a figure climted owe the sill,
There wa- but little light ut the time
and Mr.. Ulrick could gee bat indis-
tinctly the outlines Of the figure. AS
soon as it was fairly inside the win
dow he advanced toward it from the
folding doors, through which he had
been watching, and covering the iu-
truder with a ~six-shOoter ordered him
to throw up his hands. The order
was not obeyed and he was Obliged to
repeat it. As o o as the hands went
up he sliced him and asked him his
name
MY name is Anderson" was the
reply, ''aud I live at Andersons ranch
but have only been there a few days.
I am a stra, ger here"
Ulrick took him to the next room
and struck a light. The boy stuck
to his story until Ulrick found a water
bill in his pocket made out to Mrs.
Kermeen He thea admitted that he
T was Walter Kermeen and that he had
come to fire the school house. His
story was that about an hour before a
man am to his bed and woke him
up saying that if he did not set the
' school house on fire he would cut his
J heart out.
Q The boy showed a great deal Of cnu-
ming and presence Of mind. When
Ulrick first laid his hand on him be
said:
Catch that man, he's getting
away" pointing 10 the open window
His idea was to induce Ul.ick t
hunt for the man, which would give
him IN opportunity of escaping
, When asked who had threatened him
if he did not set the place afire, be
said at once, Bill Hopper, but whe1
he WAS asked TO repeat the name a few
y minutes later, he said, "Pete Hopper
IS He was without his hat or shoes, tn.
J. boy realizing, DOUBTLESS, that this
would lessen the chances Of detection
In the gunny sack be threw into thu
window, was a lot Of fine klndling,
- and q hottie partly filled with Goa
+ oil. He pTied the window open with
. a rake
The oaly motive he could have hac
for the buring of the school house Wa
x that he was in a very low grade for
boy IF his years-he is fifteen-ant
nc being very backward in his lesson
L did not like to 20 10 school. He still
oi sticks to his story that Pete Hoppe
lt forced him to his act, but there is u,
Or .uch man as Hopper in Ca,son tina
any one knows OF.
20 It IS . claimed that he was abou
D. Tunny's hay yard just before it wa
fired twice in the last few weeks.
70 It is believed that he has q mania
a for setting fire to buildings with IL
d other motive thar to see them burr
ye He is now in the county jail on tn
"a charge Of eftecting fOiciable entranc
j. ce into a building with the intent t.
Al commit arson.
The capture Of KermeeB fully exon
n, crates Hilderbrant. Much syinpath,
is felt in Carson for Mrs. Kermeen
his mother, who is sick at the preseu
time. His father, who is a man o
meana, aud superintendent of tn
Dunderberg mine in Mono County
y California, has been autographed AM
will reach this city today.
The prisoner was arraigned at 10 3
yesterday morning and the prelimin
IS AIRY examination set for this afternoon
z ar l o'clock. Bail has been fixed Ii
$4,000. Owing 10 the fact that be wa
arrested before applying the match ;
=, charge OF arson could not be lodge;
against him.
The following is a list of the incen
n diary fires il this city during tn,
past few months
Sunday, May 3.-Uninhabited dwell
, ling Immediately back Of Kirmae.
II residence, Loss $3.50.
Sunday, October 25.-Started in tn,