Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-12-30
lNcENDIARIES
DELIBERATELY
ATTEMPT TO BURN
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Ignited. The door and window frames,
curtains. bed frames
and clothing, pictures and even the
piano had been thickly coated with
the gummy substance and the odor
OF gasoline was unmistakabie. 1t was
still very evident In the house this
Damaging Evidence Found.
On the floor In the kitchen were
found two fve-gallon gasoline cans
and the two e-galion cement cans
together with the lard can In which |
the mixture had been made. Whoever |
had been in the house had gone up
the alley Mt the rear leading from |
Lincoln street. through the back yard |
and then broke the glass panel In |
the back door opening into the kit
chen. They could easily reach In and
unfastens the lock. This door was
found open by the firemen when they
got there and IL was evident who
ever set the house afire had escaped
through this back door.
/, Chemical streams were brought
Into play and with them the firemen
where 1t had taken hold OF the beds
or woodwork. While every room In
the house was burned and the con-
tents ruined the fire caused by the
cement and gasoline had burned itself
out because the mixture was too thick
to give II time to communicate to the
woodwork or furniture. But for this
mistake in making Il the incendlary
probably would have started fire
that could not have been handled until
the entire house and probably the
block had been destroyed. The ce-
ment. the fremen believe. was used to
make the dense clouds of smoke and
thereby hamper the firemen In their
work.
The loss on contents OF the house
was about $4,000. The building was
not badly damaged.
The flames did not get into the
Cantera house. nor into the home of
William Daniels. who lives on the
other side, at 1919 Lancaster avenue.
The occupants of both these houses
denied having heard any one I'm the
Papalelo house or any suspicious
noises about the place. The Daniels
had just retired for the night when
/ the fire broke out.
Fire Marshal Ainscow has samples
/ OF the gasoline and tire cement and
the mixture of both and will have them
analyzed to determine exactly what
the ingredients are. Papalelo told the
detectives that he knows of no enc
mics he may have and can conceive
of no one who would want to do him
harm by burning his home. He could
give the authorities no clues TINT
would help them In their investigation
OF the fire and the identity of the per
son who started IL. There was nothing
disturbed about the house. so that
robbery as a possible motive is no,
entertained by the fire officials or pJ-
lice.
Blaze In a Church.
Fire broke out last night about 75c
in the Southern Temple Baptist
Church at Ills East Fourteenth
street. presumably when some no,
Goals dropped from n stove in room
occupied by Edward Lowrey, colored
who lives in one of the several apart
ments on the second floor of the struc.
lure. Curtis S. Larkin, colored. of 1121
Fast Fourteenth street was passinl
when he saw the flames shooting from
the roof and sent in an alarm froE
box No. SO. On the first round thi.
number registered in all the fi-,
houses and the indicators showed th'
correct box. but on the next thre,
succeeding rounds No. 62 registered
..
to the first box and Engine Compar
lea Nos. /. 3 and and Truck No.
were quickly on the scene.
The flremen had great difficulty /;
: fighting the blaze. because OF the con
i, struction Of the building. the room
filled with furniture and other oh
s;acles and the locked doors the
; found. That all the occupants of tn
rooms on the second floor got on
> with their lives made the fireroe
= wonder. The building was damaged I
.. the extent of about $500 before tn
y flames were extinguished.
, Fireman Eugene +. Skelley O
Engine Company No. was overcom
E by smoke while on duty. He ha,
= climbed through a secono-story win
Edense clouds and before he could ge
back to the air again he inhaled mucl
lof the fumes. He had to be assisted {
: Engine House No. 3, where he wa
: revived.
Fire In Printing Plant.
About 9.3S o'clock last night fir
broke out again in the ruins of tn
:, Mercantile Printing Company's plan
= at Tenth and Walnut streets, whic
:, twas badly damaged a week ago. Thi
Q was the second time the ruins hav
= fiared up. ngine Companies Nos.
q 2 and and Truck Company No.
: were called and extinguislod the blaz,
There was no damage.
Fire was discovered about s5
n o'clock last night in the home of
n ID. Ostren at 10 South Scott stree
Engine Company No. was summone
: and the firemen found the fire in tn
3 chimney Two buckets of coal dumpe
down the flue smothered the fire bt
+, fore the house was damaged
8 This morning about $50 o'clock
j.. trolley car caught fire while passin
: Eighth and French streets. w.
Condor, chauffeur for Deputy FIJI
n Chief Donohue, was driving past
!. the time and hurried to the house
q Truck Company No. 3, secured han
4 extinguisher and returning TO Eight