Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1909-05-31
INSURANCE COMPANY
MAY PROSECUTE HIM
Others Who Lost as Result of the
Flames VIII Probably Take
No Action Against man
Who Destroyed
y Property.

San Marcial. N. NJ. May s1.-Suu-
day mornings mail brought from III
Paso, several letters from c. A. Tin
guely. In all of these letters Mr..
Tinguely confesses to having set fire
to his stock of goods. which resulted
in a $1,000 fire loss here MAY 10.
Those receiving the letters are:
Frank johnson, president of the Bank
of San Marcial; j. f. Nichols, insur-
ance agent; J. n. Broyles. Postal tel
egraph operator, and l.. NJ. I.asley.
Mr. Nichols is local representative
of the Hartford Insurance CO., OF
Hartford. Conn. in which company
Tinguely carried $4,000 insurance.
The letter to Mr.. Nichols reads RS
follows:
'El Paso, Texas, May 30
"Mr. j. +. Nichols. San Marcial, y. NJ.
Dear Mr.. Nichols:-
First / want to thank you for
your friendship and for having stood
up for me about the insurance mat
ter. Now, Mr.. Nichols, 1 am not
worthy of your friendship and IN
the most wicked and sinful wretch on
carta. have professed for a year
OF moro to be a Christian. when 1
was committing sin every day. God
saw the awfulness of my wicked
steart and turned nae oyer to Satan
and Satan made me burn the store
IN San Marial and then act the worse
hyprocite by crying and lamenting
before you for effect. Mr.. Nichols, l
deserve any punishment and besides
the punishment Of losing the goods /
am willing to go to the pen If you
gentlemen want to put me there.
Mr.. Nichols God showed all the
Holiness folks here that | had burn
ed my store the very day did 1t and
my wife asked me right out why
burned the store so soon as / got
home. We can not hide anything
from God. What we do in secret
God win shout from the housetops. |
have written the Insurance company
all about ii and asked them not TO
send insurance. Oh Mr. Nichols, sin
IL an awful thing and il is that that
has made me a criminal and pau
per. Oh, if | had only served God
l would have been all right No one
need blame Broyles or Lasley or any
body for | did the awful deed my
self and then walked to san Antonlo
so as not to be blamed.
Thanking you for the time you
have given to these lines and that you
win forgive me your part in this mat
ter, l am.
Very respectfully your unworthy
servant, c. A. TINGUELY."
The Tinguelys are members of the
Holiness church. J. n. Broyles (als)
interested in this denomination had
his telegraph Office in the Tinguely
store, and looked after the atter's
business during his absence. l.. NJ.
Lasley. an eX-Holiness preacher. to-
gether with j. ~ Broyles. whose
family recently moved to El Paso.
''batched" in rear building on the
premises where the fire occurred.
The above letter, however, lifts sus-
picion from these men.
The fire of May 10 entirely de-
stroyed the Tinguely store and con-
tonts; "A restaurant conducted by ".
w. Jones i'm a building owned By
Frank Johnson; The Central hotel
George Bowden. proprietor; King.
Nilsen and com pany's pool room: tn
J +. Nichols barber snop. The Pos
tai telegraph office was in the Tin
guely store and al! the contents were
destroyed. The loss totaled about
$1,000 Tinguely carried $4,000 Ia
surance and there was $1,000 insur-
ance on the building which was own
ed by Miss Theresa McEnemy. Somr
insurance was carried BY all the 9TH
er losers, except w. w. Jones
Until the letters We're received yes
terday by Tinguely. the origin of the
fire was a mystery. II apparently
started i'm the Tinguely store. The
insurance companies losing as a re-
suit Of the fire may prosecute Tin
gucly but the local people will prob
ably not take action against him