Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-12-02
WAREHOUSES; IN
LIVERPOOL BURNED
Strong Evidence, Police Say,
That Fires Were Work of Sim
Feiners-Policeman on Scene
Is Shot Dead

Liverpool. Nov. 2S tBy the Associated
Press)- Fifteen warehouses in Liverpool
and Boote, suburb, principally cotton
warehouses, were set on fire last nigh<.
Two of the cotton warehouses In Liver
pool were burned out. Gasoline cans and
parafIln were found about the premises.
1T was stated in police quarters there was
strong evidence that the fires were the
work of Sim Felners.
Some shooting occurred after the out
break of the flames. constables on the
scene were fired Mt and bullets passed
through the clothing of some or them.
hut none was injured one civilian was
shot dead.
Five men were placed under arrest in
connection with the incondiary outbreak.
Belfast Nov 2S.--A statement issued
tonight from Dublin Castle, after CIV
ing an account of the Liverpool fires
and accompanying incidents, adds:
Read in conjunction with the docu-
ments discovered last week in which
plans for Sim Fein reprisals against
the English towns of Manchester and
Liverpool among number. were de-
tailed, these things have very sinister
aspect. The fact of the police being
fired on suggests that the methods of
the Sim Fein murder gang in Ireland
are being employed against the Eng
lish people, even if the personnel OF the
murderers is not the same"
London. Nov. os.-Tne Liverpool cor
respondent of the Evening Telegram in
an untimed message to-day says:
IAN orgy Of outrage and destruction,
believed to have been engineered by Sim
Feiners, was carried out on twelve cot
ton warehouses and several timber yards
here Several fires were burning at once,
nccessitating a call for the assistance of
outlying brgades Many of the fires are
still burning"
The newspaper says q suspected man,
believed TO have been connected with one
of the fires, when seized by policeman
pulled a revolver and shot the police
man dead. The man later was arrested.
The descriptions of two men wanted in
connection with the fires have been cir
culated by the police. and it is believed.
adds the message, that both are connec-
ted with the Sim Fein movement.
London Nov. ga dispatch to tho
Press association from Liverpool says:
AN alarming outbreak of Sim Fein
violence occurred Saturday night. shortly
before nine o'clock. Fires broke out
simultaneously both in the south and
north ends of Liverpool and also in
Bootle.
There were seven fires in Bootle and
II in various parts OF Liverpool.
Subsequent discoveries revealed a wei
planned Sim Fein plot to spread n holo
caust of fire among the warehouses ir
the dock area. The fires were spread
over almost all of the whole seven miles
of the dock area.
lowing to the inflammable nature o.
the contents of the warehouses thu
| flames quickly gained a stronghold. ant
by one O'Clock in the morning the Who'll,
| sky was lighted up. The local fir,
brigades were unable to cope with tn,
situation and We're obliged to call brigade.
from other suburbs. The police com
Wandered all telephone wires and tool
all steps to prevent further outbreaks
by concentrating policemen along the lin,
of docks
Three youths, watching the suspicious
movements of two men at the cottol
warehouse in Parliament street. warned
the police and challenged the suspects
Thereupon they boltod and fired upol
the police, who pursued them. TIL
| policemen We're unhurt. but a bulle
pierced the heart of a youth. DAME
| Ward. who was among those who ha
warned the police, and he fell dead
THE fires in some instances wer
| quickly extingushed. Others, in stocke
cotton warehouses. burned flercely tn
night long. One in the south end an
another In Bottle ct the north end, ar
taken as proving that there was careful
organization. 1t was found that all tn
locks in the warehouses had been Gu
with bolt cutters. Many empty petro
Enn
fire started at moro than one place. 1
the case at one timber yard there wer
three separate outbreaks"