The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-22
ARRESTS FOR FIRE
MCNEIL AND HAMPTON ARE HELD
 BY POLICE.
Blaxe Men AyIewed to Have Been There Just Before Fire Are

Blaze Men AiieEed to Have Been
 There Just Before Fire Are
 charred bv flames and biaekened by smoke, the High Life building aepce silent witness yesterday to tne ienht ne ramages of the fire of Monaay s har s are cracked and warped from. the intense n. heat. the plate glass of the fsonr. snr shattered. lies stFswn upon nrssents sse n0or sasns sna tns of rrly an,ye ruin The doors of the building were locked yesterday await ing the action of the anS e,Siin but from the outside 1t could be discernsd s taat a everything combustible had oeen ae. stroyed With the efSeputi tSe entire struc @ ture is practically a loss; The build ing. which is owned by Thomas Reyn- olds, Is fully insured. aravai,s that the latest development along this line Is the arrest ,as of $ s45 oeocR aa'01 SesterdsS sS morning hy offfcers Payne and Avant. Hampton is a carpenter who was at the st sqdpE re e '%s wss parsssfsd in the bar of J. R. McNeii. and was ly- ing asleep upon a pool table when fsand fsstsa Py Sy tos ocers canty and Hin at 1I:45 Monday night at his home, llS South Union street.
  ing out of the High Life so it is stated only a short while before the flames were observed. and they are held at police Headquarters on the charge of
 IcNeii asked to make a statement for publication, said that he knows nothing about the fire. and was mace made aroused from sleep, and was notlnea that he was under arrest McNeh stated that he eprG PTSSye enS that fis soon against him he would be able to make bond. He had no idea, he said' as 10 ment for publication. He said. that he knew nothing of the hre, ana ma could suggest no explanation TOT ''s
 s Both men will be held on suspicion pending IaySs'tEaifiSRs Eriss. or op,nion sna
 Captain Griffith. of the. the fir ire d. depaSrst, art the fire was of incendfary origin; Lne ordinary rapidity. he said, and the nre had gained full headway before the arrival of the department upon tne scene He. said that the conhagratlon was, at least. of a suspicious charac-
 James Toole whose bakery sdjoins he did not think that he had suffered any considerable damage. Some hour stored on the second noor or ms puilu- ing, he said, was damaged by water but he could not say to. what extent Flames also destroyed the woodwork in the rear of his store. but the loss in this case Is not serious. MT. Toole had his stock fully insured.
 Mr. Meertief. of Nashman and Nicer lief, stated that neither their store nor their stock had been damaged to any appreciable extent All Of the night the doors of his store open: and the smoke which had collected in conse- quence of the fire next door, and by this means he. pfeserved his stock from damage by smoke. MT. Nicer lief paid the fire department high compliment upon their work in re- stricting the flames to one building in which they originated.
 T consider the work of the depart ment rema rfS ble," he said. Only q thin wall was between our store and the fierce fire raging. within the edja- cent building. and despite the difh- culty experienced in extinguishing the flames, we suffered neither from fire nor water" MT. Meertief further stated that he will in all probability. put in no claim for insurance because of the slight loss sustained