The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-11-10
BANKER ACCUSED OF
ARSON SHOWS CASE
Perry Will Undertake to Show
That Hegewisch Shelters
a Firebug.
MORE EVIDENCE FOUND
Discovery That Carbon Bricks Hav.
Been Missed From Stable Where
Perry Kept His Horse In
jures His Defense.

Chicago, Nov. 8.-Two of the deep
laid schemes of Attorney MoritZ Ros-
charged with setting fire to the plant
or the Chicago car and locomotive
works at Hegewisch on October 8.
came to light yesterday.
The lawyer, it was learned, Will at
tempt to prove the Turning of the
buildings was in limo with numerous
other inCendiary fires in HegeWisch
within the last six months. and that
there is a p~yromaniac in the village.
He also will attack the character and
credibility of the chief witness for the
prosecution, Police Lieutenant Crane.
who started the Investigation.
Rosenthal was visited yesterday BY
o.. p. Nelson, an eXpressman, whose
son was arrested several months ago
by Lieutenant Crane in connection with
the firing OF a store in Hegewisch. Mel
son and his friends asserted that the
policeman had threatened his son into
a false confession. 1t is said the man
and his friends have offered their serV-
ices to the defense in the attack on
Crane.
Between twelve and twenty fires are
alleged to have been started in Hege-
wisch by firebugs within the last six
months. The last one was last Friday
night, when a barn was destroyed al
One Hundred and Thirty-third and Erie
streets. The police found evidence of
incendiarisrn. but in M instance vas q
fuse and carbon used.
Towels saturated with Oil have beef
tGfoWn against the sides of barns and
houses and lighted. The police suspect
a young ma in Hegewisch, but are not
able to prove a case.
Crane Says He Is Satisfied.
Tho nffn,lrt I r,,nCYinr 7 in,,fnrnrt
Cranes motives in the Perry prosecu-
iitiori IS regarded by him with interest.
Il will be satisfied If they do not
prove / am a firebug," he said last
night. II suppose they will bring up
my alleged declaration that my su.
perior officer and the states attorneys
office were blocking this investigation
i wish to say now that it is absolutely
false. I never made such accusa tons.
and never have believed that such was
the state of affairs. We all have
worked in harmony, n it is no more
than right that a mar should have a
hearing before being convicted"
Frank Book, day Waterman for the
plant, Who was the only man in the
factory wheH Perry made his Sunday
visit on the day of the fire, will say be-
fore Justice Callahan today:
II let Mr.. Perry into the grounds that
day. After walking through some of
Vic DulIoiIlSS "llil tllip le Iloll1Vb !
was iii and told me to go to a doctor.
He told me that he lad something to
SAY to me and to meet him at the Erie
station at train time. | was there
Shortly before 5 o'clock, and as he did
not appear l became uneasy and re-
turned to the factory.
Il met Perry coming out OF one OF
the buildings. He acted in a peculiar
manner and appeared nervous We
went to the station together, where he
took The 5 o'clock train to Hammond
When I started to return i saw the
smoke and flames bursting from the
wrecked building"
Fire attorney Thomas j. Johnson IN
nounced hat carbon bricks, resembling
those found by Lieutenant Crane in
the Hegewisch plant the day after the
fire, has disappeared from the livery
barn of Martin Farrell, POI Thirtieth
street, where Perry has stabbed his
horses for the last twenty years. The
fact was discovered after a visit OF
the banker to the barn four days before
the fire.
This evidence, coupled with some
which has not been disclosed. is in
controvertible." declared Attorney
Johnson. 81 have facts to connect him
with the fire, and I believe he will be
indicted no matter what the justice
our decision may be-"
Missing Bricks Are Traced.
The bricks were stamped With an
81" by the lehman Carriage company.
which manufactured them. Five or
ders have been sold this fall. Farrells
livery is ear Mr.. Perry's residence,
at Twenty-ninth streets and Prairie
avenue. The banker is known to all
the stablemen, and has the freedom OF
the place.
on October 9 Farrell placed an order
for two boxes of the bricks. which are
nSp6 0G warmers in GA rIi1 peg ON DC
,tober 4 they were delivered. One boz
CONTAINING 100 carbons, was opened ant
put on the windowsill of the Office,
On the evening of October 5, it i:
said. Perry called on the livery man
and sat within three feet of the box
days ten carbons We're missing. III,
box was moved into the basement mex
day.
The bricks are two inches square AM
on inch thick. They We're tested il
the fire attorneys. office yesterday an
burned readily with a steady flame 70
fifteen minutes. A similar bricl
stamped with an a." was found In tn
foreman's office of the machine sho
the day after the Hcgewisch fire, an
II in the pattern room of the WOO
mill. Both were saturated with oil an
attached to q fuse which also wa
soaked.
New evidence. it is believed, vii, b
Developed before the hearing in Justic
E,Callahan'S court tomorrow. Fourtee
witnesses have been subpoened.
w. c. Hunt, superintendent of til
plant. said he noticed a falling off i
business shortly before ihe fire.
"A number of bids for work / ar
swered | since have learned nevt
reached the parties addressed" he sal
They were stopped by some high o.
ficial.'
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