The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-09-27

Four Of the men were arrested late
Saturday night and about 3 o'clock yes
terday morning Under sheriff Nossiter
and Deputy Sherims John Moore and
Frank Chlrico began rounding up the
seven others. They were taken from
their beds. by daylight one-ffth OF the
U%artsdale fire department was in jail.
The men arrested and charged with ar
son are:
William Eastner. 30 years old. a
mounted policeman and formerly n
United States cavalryman.
Frank Ryan. 81, a law clerk, em-
ployed In White Plains
Harry Drury, of the Agro Auto Sup
ply Company at Hartsdale.
Chester Sheath, a ~storekeeper' OF
Hartsdale.
Frank Dalton, 81, a hacknan.
Samuel Dalton. 90, also a hackmah.
John Nicholson, 90. a stepbrother OF
Eastner. an automobile repair man
Joseph O'Connor, %. who owns a
garage. -,
jerome OConnor' - "r''"'' VI
Joseph.
RAYMOND Russell. 10, a grocery clerk.
Elvood Hopkins. 81. a butchers clei"'
RAYMOND Russell * a brother-in-liw
Of W. n. Van DOran. chief of the IRE de-
partment.
The Hartsdale department was at one
time said TO Ice one OF the best volunteer
companies in the country. II was
started In 1905 and is supported 10y sun
scription. Some of the men VINO con-
tribute to L with the idea OF protecting
their homes are Paul Warburg, member
NJ rho Federal Reserve Board FeliN
Warburg, the banker G. W. LeaNl't' q
,andscaps gardener of New York, ana
Thomas Healy, the restaurant man
The fir. house IL about the only place
In the village whore the youth OF INC
Mace cougreEate. The engine frequently
is rolled 10 the street to make room
for dances and bridge parties. Members
OF the department devote much OF '"e''
time TO pinochie there. .
The first fire that Is said to have us
origin I'm the heads OF members OF the
d.nlftment was that in the
ltruyf,V. . deserted house. That wa,
IN March. The p|.uyAolr game, t''"'''
ing to the story the sheriff says We
told to him. lost its SAVIOR ana me
Young men gathered In the house longeo
FOR a real FIRE. The Shcrln says ma
the men who had part In starting mn
b,az. were John Nicholson, Samuel D"l'
ton, Drury, Joe oIolhor an" "''
man Eas'uer
.They told me that they cut the cards
10 soc who should set the IRE, sdl,
sheriff Wicscudauger. land John NlchoI
son told me he drew an ace. Ihey usr'
sam palton's automobile and arranget
with Eastner To have him discover th'
fire and hit tn" big wagon wheel s"h-
that hung In q tree near tn" iire mouse
1bsp th.y drove over to the Randolph
co,t,yc touched it on and were haci
IN m. house waiting for the alarm wheT
Eas,ner struck 1t. Drury drove the np
n,r,tus and they did a good job on tina
hlaze. Put II tut IN no time.
second House Burns Dawn
SThat was So successful that y snor
time later they decided TO have anothe'
are. \ lot of them drove UP 10 Watt
Plains one night in Joe o'onnors aut"
mobile and on the WA back decided
that as the Randolph fire had lurne'
ont SO we'll they would have anothe'
blaze. This time they picked the Strh
hius homestead. AN Old place owned b!
Thomas SIMPSON of New York. whicl
WAS worth A lot of money once.
"When they got back to ltdrtsdal
! they picked up Eastner and took hin
down near the fire gong. Then the,
drove out to the Stebbins place. pile
n,nor M near the fireplace and lit II
drove around a few minutes to see tina
then lace got coins well and went hacI
10 the fire house. That fire was seen frs
i'm Dobbs Ferry, where the fire Whist
WAS blown, and a few minutes late
E,stuer hit the gong They had waite,
SO long that the place was pretty we
burned up when they got on the job an
II was entirely destroyed"
DEPUTY Sheriff Moore, who got tn
evidence that led to the arrest of IN
eleven men, is a member OF the depart
ment also and says that il was the vi
usual speed made in getting the automo
/. bile cart gu of the fire house after IN
,, alarm that first led him to suspect thi
something was wrong,
Chicf Van Doran and James J
Walker, president Of the fire company
went to White Plains last night to ="
=. sheriff WieSeudangcr. They feared tina
/, tho disclosures would lead to the forma
ton Of "A new Columbia company an
the extinction of their own, which cor
, tains many reputabl" men
The men under arrest viii he a.
raIrned to-day before a justice of IN