The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-04-26
EACH DEMANDED
A HEARING
Fire Threatened to De-
stroy Old City Build-
ing But Was Finally
Squelched With Loss
of About $1,000.

A small blaze, accompanied BY a large
amount Of smoke, ia the meat market Of
Papln Brothers in the basement Of the old
city bu.,dlng, bafied the efforts Of the fire.
men to extlnguish it for some time at an
early hour this morning, the alarm being
rung Ia at 80 O'Clock By good work the
iiremen kept the FIRE confined TO the base
ment, but the stores Of Perry & Camp On
the first floor Of the building wers hlled
with smoke. The total loss 10 building
and contents viii be about $1,000.
A rigid investigation 81 the scene Of
the fire was made this forenoon by States
Attorney Senter, Grand Juror Scott, City
Attorney Gordon, Chief Of Police Brown,
with Chief Campbell of the FIRE depart
ment and other members oi tbs depart-
ment, They went through the Papin
market, and discovered evidences which
led them to think that the fire was set, in
at least two places one Of them was in
the office, but this blaze bad burned itself
out, another was ID a corner Of the store
and here the greatest danger was done,
the Gre communicating % the woodwork
and spreading an over the store A third
place was under the sausage cutter, but
there vas not SO much certainty regarding
this.
Fire Chief Campbell and the police
found pieces of paper which evidently had
been saturated with kerosene; it was also
stated that the sawdust on the floor had
every indication Of being sprinkled with
oil
As a result OF the investigation made
by the officials, three warrants were sw0tn
out and served Just before noon,on Joseph
and John Papn, Of the firm Of Papin
Bros. and Philip Bell their clerk, oharg-
ing them with arson In setting fire to the
building In addition, the charge Of adnl
terry was preferred against Joseph Papin.
Being arfaigned before Judge Fay all three
respondents demanded i hearing, and the
court granted one for this afternoon at 2
O'Clock. Bail IN each of the arson cases
was fixed at s coo and ia the adultery
case against the older Papin $500 Bell
was allowed TO 20 on hisown ree0gnizance,
and G. w. Papin, the liYeryman, was rec
Ognl1ed as b0ndsman for both his broth
eFs.
James Wheeler, clerk ia Prindle 4
Averil's store, says that Bell, one Of the
respondents, purchased Of him at about
6.15 last evening two quarts OF kerosene,
carrying it away 10 a small lard pail
which had d brown cover. Bell Is we'll
known about the city, having been en-
plOyed as meat clerk in various shops.
He Is 33 years Of age. The Papins have
been employed as clerks IN several stores,
and about three months ago, went into the
meat business.
After concluding bis investigation
States Attorney Senter said, ''The FIRE
was ineendiaryh Chief Brown declared
positively that the Gre was set, and the
other officials coneurred in the state
ment
The Gre was discovered BY two patrol
men, David Faulkner and David MoPhee,
and the alarm was rung in by the former
from box % few minutes before
O'Clock. The Ere had probably been
smouldering for some time previously, as
John Fraser, who Is baker for +. ID. Laddt
SAYS that he smelled the smoke at about
one o'clock. The bakeshop Is next door
to the old city building. BY the time the
patr0lmen came along, smoke was seen
pouring from the basement door, and short
time was made in ringing in the alarm.
The hook aud ladder truck made remark
ably good time, and several OF the firemen
attempted to extinguish the flames With
hand extinguishers 1t was apparent
however, that the fire was beyond them
and the new chemical engine which has
not been used all winter, was pressed intC
service. AS luck would have t. tht
chemical was cleaned thoroughly yester
day and put into commission. And tht
chemical proved its usefulness, no watel
being turned onto the fire from the hy-
drant, although both hose com panies re
sponded TO the alarm.
The flames had scorehed the interior o.
papin Bros store and had eaten thel
way into the partition which separate:
Papins from Parker & Tassieis market II
the same basement. This made the fire
mems work particularly difficult Thl
partition had to be cut through, before thi
flames could be smothered By the chemi
cal. and it was feared at one time that tn
fire would eat its way to the second fto0l
aud envel0p the whole building in flames
The building is an old one and had tn
danes got more headway, that aud several
wooden structures nearby would havi
been endangered The Ere was uude