Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-11-01
TWO SUSPECTS ARRESTED
IN BAL |MORE FIRE PROBE.
Saloonkccper and Stranger Subjected
to Lengthy Questioning by De-
partlnent OF Justice Agents.
THEIR NAMES NOT REVEALED
b. s. O.'s Loss Estimated by Vice
President Thompson at $1,000
00O-All Men Except One Believed
to Have Been Accounted For.
tBy Associated Press. ]

lBy Associated Press.1
BALTIMORE. October 3l.--Two sus-
poets. one saloonkeeper and tho
other stranger who was reported to
have been seen in motor-boat near
the Baltimore and Ohio piers. were
arrested to-day by Federal Department
OF Justice agents Investigating the
100000 fire here late last night
The men arrested were taken to de-
partment Offices and subjected to
lengthy questioning. Special Agent
Harris said their names would not be
revealed at least at present. nor would
he intimate the results Of his inves-
tiCation. The saloonkeeper, according
TO the police. had been heard to say:
we are going to get the elevators
next" Police claim he told them he is
Russian Pole. but that he is a native
OF Germany who has taken out natural
ization papers In the United States.
Fl. p. Munro, ott the Bureau OF
Mines. Washington. came here to-day
to investigate reports that bombs
figured in tho explosions at the fire.
heavy pail OF smoke. which hung
over the harbor. made tho river dan
gerous for tranlc. A steamer from
i'iioNSiphid koilliHcu lIe SleTu OIL lno
British steamer. which was afire. but
neither ship was much damaged by the
impact.
All men who were In the fire zonc
last night are believed to have been
accounted for except Eustace Bromley,
chief naval gunner on q British
steamer which was lying at the piers.
and Michael j. Hand. tally clerk
GnvAraI doR mi fal,
counted for are believed to have been
saved.
The Baltimore and Ohio's loss was
estimated tonight by cc-Prcsident
Thompson at 100000 covered by in
surance. Piers and were destroyed
and these. Mr.. Thompson said, would
be reconstructed at once. Loss Of
these two piers. he said. will not in
terrupt handling of freight.
The damage to the steamer and its
cargo Is estimated at 100000. while
100000 loss is thought TO have been
sustained by the Fungress- Witty
Steamship Company. which used the
piers for its terminals. Among the
goods destroyed were 1000 cases Of
imported liquor. $50 carloads of -four.
fifty carloads Of tobacco and 10000
bales OF wood pulp.
TO CHANGE APTITUDE
TOWARDS PRO-GERNANS
WASHINGTON. October 31.-The fire
on the Baltimore piers following the
100000 fire in Brooklyn and follow
ing the warnings from Herbert c.
Hoover and from Italian sources
against German agents and propGEan-
da. Will result in stringent change
in the attitude Of the Department of
Justice towards pro-Gcrmans.
No violence against pro-Germans
will be countcnanced by the admins
tration. The cause or thu United
States ia injured not aided. by this
sort OF thing" said Secretary Of War
Baker in discussing the whipping OF
Herbert Bigelow to-day. THE right
of free speech Is guaranteed by the
Constitution. and abuses of that kind
are punished by law. The lynching Of
Belgium is not avenged by having
lawless lynchings of our own
But the arm OF the law. made power
full by the espionage act. will BIO fully
exercised. II the perpetrator5 OF the
Baltimore and Brooklyn ires are ap-
pretended. II is stated here. that at ex-
ample will he made of them. Those
who utter pro-German sentiments will
be promptly interned.