Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-01-17
MAN Held AS
SUSPECT FOR
TERRORREICN
Blazes In Ill Parts OF
City Keep Depart
ment on Run During
Entire Night

WASHINGTON. Jan Ig.-aF-Ess
extra alarm fires. lntsTsperse1 slt1
several minor ones and " Gea false
alarms. threw the nAti8Hal cap.t0l
into a state 0f tlrmml last Hight
and earlv today and Ied che police
to believe llra bugs wcre a- uuEM An
the nationai caR.tal.
The hiaEea, chs first oi Walsh ha-
Ean shortly before milniEft, fnHfin-
rtd until after nime ocinek this
morning. bringing apparatus 2Eaa
many nearby Virginia 4E4 Mary41ln
cities and towns r1 al4 au exhausted
Washington rFew lH1 starting " wllS
search fpF suspects believed Own have
deliberately ssr fire to the places and
20 have tlrned in false alarma ta
divert the fire fIEhteFa-
The first man t4kea ln tAn h-nf
AS > temporary psgchQnathl1 60
tleut w VA alter Reed hospital As
gave the name Uf john JlcsB lsber
49, yrars old. Dn hHH EaFHum wlH
found n fire badge cf tha tnmn rf
kAilsharEh. NeW Vera he waA held
for investigation
No Fatalities
Fisher VAS arrested Alsss tAras
men said they oaErFsed kim arE -
suspiUl0usly ~ Tire Box ln t-s
Eckirgt0n section where a gFaln eis-
water vas burued at tulrth ard Wy.
streets. Northwest
Other fires wera At Ehe Muel-
worth storn On FemnANltMntA AvenIm
between . NTH amd LeHth atrHsts. A
number q. rfoalce stores near EFM-
ter Market = little more than a hlnrk q
aRay. "A Erain store cn H- street.
near the Un.un Stzfan Fl11-eE A.
4 lumber yard Az Fo1Fternth az1 w
streets. in the northwest FtsilsHti4l
district.
Cherk-up revealed ro fasaltss su
/ any uf che hiaEes. althn@-H IA Heurn
Of firemen were uFrrramR whmm o.
gas mnin hreke in the M nalwnrth
store. the first hiaEe in aha saFiea
I th4t kert q eontin4ed PFaefssinh nf
I fire-fighting eHEirnent rann4nE ever
I the city Ter acre than nine haEFa
ard started Ten pieces Cf apparatus
over the long t0-ulile run tEgn B1.-
Il timure.
An inspection uf tha blraed AruAA
showed thar the fires ha9 GDzG HHv-
eral hundred thousand daliars 4nm-
age.
Hold Man a Fires
Fo1r ninor fires kFoke est aftaR
nine o'clock this mcr-irEs iHclEaiaE
Y one at the HlHEaElaa lsgatl1a.
where u blEd wAs blFEsa. bgt rcza
resulted in great lgss-
n Police later said that Fisher al
nlitted visiting several of thH tirmA,
but said he was "tlst a spectator
I He VAS turned over tn che dEtnrA
I attorneys oftlee fcr further aEan-
tiozing.
Police sad thev 80 IVY iafsrna-
tioH indicating that tie lumber yaFd
bla-e was " fncell ary uFigi1. -
they believed the uthurB t1 hHww
been. BaltimnFa engines. whirh ra-
| spunde1 earlier iH tee HiEhE 20
emergency calls from local rffiriaiH.
were fighting the new blaze ThHy
had arrived dlrirE the niEAt i'm tine
~ 20 izto artian O. tMa oLhsr 20
fires.
Fourteenth aua W. streets ars N
the midst Cf ths northwest resi1en-
tial EecticE. Ihs iirs tea Un tFnf-
fic and thousands Cf weFAurH wEFH
forred to walk or take alt1zuhtlFH
tn their places 0f business.
Fires tomtimue AM Night
flre-hlarkenen ruins nr four HniHtH,
twa cf them in the Business Mer-
ton. marked she traits of nnsnnetei A
pyromznizrs whn kFrt firnman rn
the run 1T night an4 gave ths earT
IT, greatest scare ir years.
The unprecedented series of fires
began shortly before r1i1nlght ths
four major crnflaEratioHs heiHE t1'
tersnerErd with smaller uuHA MuA
4 false alarms The F0rM# twn FfWmH
one Of five and the other ef thtaI
alarms, found the earitala fr-
fighting force unable tn cope wifA
tie situation ard calls fer ASSIST
snce were sent ~ nearby NfrFln /
and Maryland points. Ten rnnnaniei
res ponded also frurn Baiti-nrs
making the s0-miie rur i1 tire x
combat the last two of tha blsIsa.