The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1909-12-03
GOODS SEIZED
BY HUB POLICE
Aftermath Of Fire In Premises
Of Dealers In FuTS
THREE ARRESTS ARE MADE

Torch Said to Have Been Applied to
Establishment After Greater Part of
Stock and Furs That Were In stor-
age Had Been ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Claimed Insurance of $35, ooo-cll-
max of Long investigation
Boston, Nov. 30.-Furs and rare
skins valued at $4,000 were seized By
Deputy Superintendent Of Police Watts
and his detectives in raid on build
Ing in Intervale street. Dorchester.
last evening, following the arrest OF
Samuel /. Gordon, SO, and Morris
Rudnick, SO, who are charged with
arson in setting fire to the building at
I19 Summer street, where, with Nor
ris August, they conducted furriers'
business. Bernard Davies, 3S, was
arrested, charged with being an &C
cessory before the fact.
The arrest and subsequent raid in
Dorchester are the result of several
months of investigation under the per-
sonal direction of Watts and Superin-
tendent Leith of the Pinkerton
agency. Several more arrests are ex-
pected, and the police hope to recover
furs valued at $25, 900.
Deputy Watts says that furs valued
at $25, 900, which were stored with
the concern by hundreds of Boston
ians, were removed secretly and that
the place was set afire on the night of
June 10 and that the owners Of the
store Immediately claimed the insur-
ance of S35, 900 which they had upon
the stock and goods in storage.
The insurance was held by the
Providence Washington Insurance
company. and after a superficial ex-
animation of the store on the day fol-
lowing the fire the agents protested
the payment of the insurance and
placed the case in the hands Of Watts
and Leith.
Deputy Watts stated last night that
the insurance people claimed that all
that was left in the store after the
fire was q lot OF packing cases in
which the furs were said to have been
stored. These, they claim. were filled
with nothing but paper and other
material.
August is said to have confessed
that the place had been set on fire and
that the greater part of the stock and
furs that we're in storage had been
secretly taken from the store before
the torch was applied.
Inspector Rooney went to the Ma
tional Fur company, 564 Washington
street, in which Gordon is a partner,
and placed him under arrest. Rud-
nick and Davies, who are partners in
a real estate business in the Old South
were arrested by Inspectors
Norton and McCauley.
The prisoners were put on the rack
by Deputy Watts, and when they had
finished the interview with Davies a
visit was made to the shed on Inter-
vale street, where the goods had been
placed in a building leased by Davies.
Other furs were recovered in Davies
home.
Davies is alleged to have aided in
disposing of the goods. He will also
be charged with accepting a receipt
that set forth that he stored furs with
the concern to the value of $4,000. The
police say that he did not place any
furs in storage, but the receipt was
made out to increase the amount Of
damages TO be claimed.
Immediately after the fire, Gordon,
t is alleged, made a sworn statement |
% the insurance company as to the |
goods destroyed by fire. All Of the |
goods recovered last night are said to
De included in the list that Gordon Is
alleged to have sworn were burned
Up. August is reported to have identi-
led all the goods seized by the police.