The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-06-21
 CONFESSION
 CONVICT HIM

Il, Alexander Gilmore, do hereby Say, free and unsolicited, that I did set lire to the old wheel shop in Stella street, Tuesday night, June 6, 1911.
 did not do 1t with any intent, and would not have done it only I was drunk.
 T hereby promise never to molest any property in the city of Bridgeport again, and I am sorry for what I have done. It is all on account of drink
 ALEXANDER GILMORE" - This is the signed statement, pre- sented in evidence before Judge Will der in the city court today, that play the court in holding Gilmore in bail of s1,50o on the charge of arson, for trial, in the Superior court in September.
 Gilmore was accused of setting fire to the J. W. Beach Co.'S metal shop, in Stella street, where fire late Tues day night, June 6, did damage of about $4.00O. He pleaded not guilty, and attorneys for the defence sought to dis credit the confession.
 Gilmore is teamster, employed for several years by Hunter & Ravens. He is prodigious worker, and so faithful that the story is told of him that once when his employers caused his being sent to jail for theft they were instrumental in effecting his re- iCdSc pSiOIe Ie HGO SeTNeQ lHS term, that he might return to their employ. He has long been regarded as eccentric, and has given his fam fly much trouble, particularly in the forgery of the name of his mother, Mrs. Mary Gilmore, who lives across from his home in Wakelee street, near the scene of the fire.
 Gilmore, in the opinion of the fire men and State police, is pyromaniac. They know of no reason for his set ting fire to the Beach shop other than an insane desire to see it burn. They regard it as especially significant that within three years about dozen fires have occurred in tine immediate vicin- ity Of his home, nearly every one of which was regarded as the work of a firebug, yet Gilmores friends contro- vert this claim by pointing to the fact that one of these supposed incendiary fires occurred while he was lodged in jail.
 Fire Chief Mooney testified that his investigation disclosed the fire to have been set from rags placed beneath the Sill of little room jutting out from the main building. Other witnesses were called to show that the accused was up and around about the time of the fire.
 It developed in the examina tion of Mrs. Alice Gilmore, wife of the pris- oner, that she and her husband quar- reled the night of the fire because she had gone to the Bijou theatre with another man, and that he arose on her return home and went out to a neigh- boring saloon
 State Policeman Robert P Hurley produced the signed confession Which was witnessed by Chief Mooney and Michael Bain of the fire department. He related the conversation that led up to the signing Of the confession, and said the prisoner told him if he had a wife like Mrs. Gilmore, he would shoot her.
 Though cross-examined at length the State policeman could not be forced into an admission that he had resorted to trickery to secure the confession, and despite the strenuous objections of Attorney E. O. Hull, representing the prisoner, Judge Wilder admitted the confession.
 Prosecutor Delaney and Attorney Hull had frequent tilts over the pro- ceedings. Gilmore was not called to the witness stand. Delaney said he had much more evidence to produce before the Superior court.