The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-10-26
Suspicious Actions of Harry
Cory, Restaurant Keep
er, Causes Him to Be Held
by the Sheriff.
NO CHARGE is YET
MADE AGAINST NAM
Several Stores Destroyed and
a ReSidence.-Bl Blaze Last
Night Like the One of
Last Summer.
(ey STAFF CORRESPONDENT

(8y STAFF CORRESPONDENT
GREENSBORO. Ind, Oct. 26.-Fire
of undoubted incendiary origin. last
midnight destroyed business section
of this town, entailing a loss of ap-
proximately $4,000. covered in great
er part by insurance, and threatening
destruction TO other property that was
saved by means OF fire equipment
which the citizens of the town pur-
chased following the blaze that last
spring destroyed almost a solid block
of business structures and which caus-
ed loss of $4,000.
Because of suspicious circumstan-
ces connected with his general con-
duct. Harry Cory. restaurant keep
er whose place of business was among
those burned. was taken in custody
early this morning by Sheriff Steen
and is being held in Jail pending an In
quiry into the conflagration. No
charge has been placed against him
nor is there any direct discriminating
evidence which connects him with the
actual firing of the business house
which he conducted.
Losers From Blaze.
The losers by last nights fire and
insurance carried. follow:
ALBERT KIENZLE. owner of brick
building. two stories. occupied By
Charles Kienzle. general merchandise:
by the Greensboro Telephone COM
pany's exchange: by Brooks restaur-
ant and the Knights of Pythias lodge.
Building entirely destroyed. only walls
of structure remaining standing. VAL
ue of structure, $4,000: insurance.
81 900.
CHARLES KIENZLE, owner OF
stock of general merchandise, saved
the greater part of his stock, which
was moved into the street and later
into other buildings. His loss of few
hundred dollars taken care of by in
surance.
TOM DEGA, and 10 cent store
proprietor. Stock valued at $500: in
surance $500. -
GREENSBORO TELEPHONE CO.,
! had plant on second floor of the Kien-
zle building valued at $3.50. Totally
destroyed. No insurance.
WILLIAM BROOKS. restaurant pro-
prietor. had loss of $500; partly cover
ed by insurance.
EARL STEVENSON, barber. loss
500; no insurance.
KNIGHTS of PYTHIAS LODGE, oc-
cupying second floor front of Kienzle
! building, lost furniture TO value OF
$3.50 Covered by insurance
]. w. WILLS, druggist. occupying q
! frame building, one-story. owned by
William NJ. Roller. carried a stock val
ued at $1,000 or more. Total loss: no
| insurance.
| HARRY CORY. restaurant prophet.
or who occupied part of same room
in which Wills drug store was Iocat-
ed. had but small amount of fixtures
and stock. No insurance carried.
WILLIAM NJ. ROLLER. general
! hardware. Building and practically
/ entire stock totally destroyed, only
three or four cases of merchandise
being saved. Loss $1,000 on stock and
! building; insurance $500. The post
j office occupied part OF the hardware
store room, Mr.. Roller being the post
master. All fixtures were destroyed
and mail that was in cases ready for
distribution this morning also was
lost. In addition 10000 postal cards
and small quantity of stamps were
burned. Money orders and cash on
hand were in steel safe and probably
will be found undamaged when safe
can be taken from ruins and opened.
Mr.. Roller had one of the most COM
pletely stocked hardware stores In the
county.
| MRS. HANNAH BRADBURY, own
er and tenant of residence south of
the Roller building. suffered a loss of
81 500; insurance 5000.
Discosered About 1880.
II was about 1880 O'Clock when the
blaze was discovered and Harry Cory.
the restaurant proprietor, is said to
have been the man who gave the
alarm The first arrivals at the scene
1 found the little frame building occu-
pied by Cory and by Wills, the drug
gist, TO be a mass of flames, indicat-
ing the fires origin had been within
the structure and probably at the rear
of the room. With rapidity that was
appalling to the citizens, many of
whom had not recovered fully from
the fright of the conflagration a few
months ago. the blaze ate its way both
to the north and south of the point of
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