The weekly soliphone., 1915-10-08

cid first, placed him under arrest and took from him box of match es which Threlkeld had purchased from J. c. Crowell about seven o'clock last night.
 This morning it was learned Threlkeld entered the Trice build ing on West Emerson street last night and attempted to set it on fire. He was seen going up the stairway that leads to offices occu- pied by the Chamber of Commerce, and Dr. J. F. Morris, dentist. He set fire to the paper on the wall in the hall, but the flames did not ex- tend far and apparently died out a short time after the firebug left the building.
 Policemen J, M. Kinnard and Leo Schmicker, with several citizens who had joined the officers in watching the movements of the three men, decided the time had come to take the two Eatons into custody. Loung Lynn Eaton was arrested on West Court street near the Bleier building. Not knowing of his connection with the arson squad Ben Wesson, who occupies one of the rooms in the Bleier building, had employed young Eat on to watch the building to prevent further attempts to set it on fire. J. w. Eaton had gone to his home on the East Side and retired when the officers decided to make the arrests. Policemen Kinnard and Schmicker went to Eaton's home and apprehended him. All three parties were placed .n jail and this morn ing at eleven o'clock they were ar raigned before Esq. A. B. Hays for preliminary trial.
 J. c. Crowell testified that Threlkeld came into his store in the McHaney building about seven o'clock last night and bought a box of searchlight matches, similar to the box found on Threlkeld when he was arrested.
 The state examined twenty-seven witnesses from whom a mass of in- eliminating evidence was secured. Witnesses were produced who con- nected Threlkeld directly with each of the five attempts to start destruc- tive fires.
 Buck Barron, county surveyor, who has an office on the second floor of the McHaney building, went into his office about seven o'clock last night. He testified he saw fhrelkeld and another party whom he took to be Eaton in the hallway upstairs. Threlkeld was in the extreme south end of the hall way when Barron reached the landing and was trying to get into the office of J. V .Landrum. Bar ron spoke to Threlkeld and told him Landrum did not usually come to l his office at night. The other par ty, Barron says, went into a side room He said Threlkeld also went
 into the sideroom, and Barron left the building before Threlkeld and
 Eaton came out.
 Mike Hurley and Will Meredith saw Threlkeld and J. W. Eaton en- ter J. o. Langdon's store in the
 Bleier building soon after the alarm
 of fire was turned in from the Me
 Haney building. They remained in
 the Bleier building ten or fifteen
 minutes, came out, returned and Threlkeld again entered and got his
 coat. Returning to the outside he
 and Eaton went east on Court street. Within five minutes after they left it the building fire was discovered in the rear of the Langdon store. | Police Judge Jeff Bratton who
 wes going west on Emerson street by the National Bank of Commerce saw Threlkeld come across the
 street from a point near Kasper' s
 bakery and run up the stairway that leads to the Chamber of Com