The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-11-20
RESULT OF INVESTIGATION.
There Will Be a Stirring Time In
Stark COunty's Capital.
WORK is NOT YET ALL DONE.
hut Marshal Hollenbeck Feels Pretty
Sure OF His Cases In Canton and New
Baltimore Accused Persons Arc
Said to stand high Column
bixna County tires.

[From a Staff Correspondent
Columbus, Nov. 17.-Unless all signs
fail. Canton is going to be plunged into
q highly sensational state as result of
the investigation begun in that city by
Assistant Fire Marshal H. H. Hollen-
beck and his deputy, Henry w. Hart.
Of Canton.
Mr.. Holenbeck returned to Columbus
yesterday to confer with the department
regarding the suspicious fires recently
Investigated in Stark and Columbiana
counties, especially those that occurred
in Canton. The three Canton fires are
about the worst cases the department
has under consideration at the present
time. The disclosures which viii ulti-
mately follow the inquisition being con-
Quoted, viii, most assuredly cause aston
ishment in Canton, for the reason that
persons standing high in the business
and social world in the city are in
yolved.
Mr.. Hollenbeck will give out no names
now, but he vouchsafed the informa-
tion that 1t was quite likely an arrest
would be made in one of the Canton
cases next week.
The New Baltimore fire which Is also
being Investigated, is the case referred
to in this correspondence two weeks
ago in which it was stated the informa-
ton was furnished by a Canton man.
The evidence secured thus far shows
that all four fires were of an incendiary
nature, the motive being to
COLLECT INSURANCE
on the properties The department be-
lieves 1t will be successful in punish
ing the guilty parties and to accomplish
this end the officers will concentrate
their efforts
Assistant Marshal Hollenbeck has
been investigating these fires during
the past ten days and he will probably
return to Canton next week. Deputy
Hart has left Canton temporarily for
New Philadelphia and Canal Dover.
where alleged presumable cases of ar
scn are to be looked into. Messrs.
Hollenbeck and Hart also investigated
a fire in East Liverpool last week. They
slipped into the city quietly, sum-
moned witnesses and left without ap-
prising the local authorities Of their
presence in town. The fire was one
which destroyed suburban dwelling
and grocery. The building was frame
and 1t and contents were consumed
early one morning in the latter part
of the summer. The owner and family
evacuated the building, 1t Is said, and
shipped a portion of their effects away.
a short time before the fire. occurred.
The transcript of the testimony in this
case Is not yet ready and Marshal Hol-
lenbeck says the evidence may not be
SUFFICIENT to bring about conviction.
He will go to East Liverpool again next
week from Canton He will also in
quire into the facts Of fire from town
in the northern part Of Columbiana
county. .ss. " ..,....,. ~. !, Z.
Three alleged incendiary fires of bank
rupt stores In Cleveland are being in
vestigated.
TOO MUCH WORK.
1t has been found that the present
force Of the fire marshal department
is wholly inadequate. The law went
into active effect in August and since
work has piled UP faster than 1t cam be
disposed Of Chief Marshal Helenbeck
will ask the next legislature to increase
his force. He has two assistants and to
these three Is delegated power to hold
courts of inquiry. The deputies of the
various districts are not invested with
such rights.
The heavy business keeps the assist
ants very busy travelling from one point
to another in response to the calls of
the district deputies and II Is not always
possible to give cases the attention each
requires.
THE MT. HOPE CASE.
The syllabus Of the supreme court In
the case against Mt. Hope college,
whose charter has been annulled-in
which Attorney r. II. Day, of Canton,
was referee-was given out today, and
is as follows: ati
mo. 6951--The State of Ohio ex rel,
the Attorney General vs. the Mt. Hope
College company. In Quo Warranto.
"By the Court: When the trustees of
an educational institution, incorporated
under the laws OF this state, sign dip
Tomas In blank and leave them within
the control of one Of its officers who sells
them, and thus eonfers degree without
regard to merit there Is such misuse
of the power conferred as requires the
dissolution of the corporation.
Judgment of CUSTER"
GEORGE r. BLAKE.