Evening Star Newspaper, August 21, 1924, Page 11

CAUSED 100 FIRES FOR “EXCITEMENT” Young New Yorker Says He } - Has Craving to See En- gines in Action. By the Associated Press, NEW YORK, August 21.—A self- styléd “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” an unassuming man of 26, blandly con- fessed to the police vesterday that he had_caused over 100 incendiary fires on Manhattan Island in the last few months—*“just to see the fire engines in action.” “It was a lot of fun,” he explained Wwith a smile, “to stand in front of a burning houSe and know - that the people running from the place so madly didn’t know that the one who had made all the excitement was right there looking at them.” The prisoner, George C. Gustow, former bank clerk, and son of a pat- ent attorney, was held for examina- tion by a lun ommission to be ap- pointed by a court. It will be his second experience with alienists, for he was incarcerated in Bloomingdale and Middletown Asylums from 1915 to 1919 after his arrest for a series of incendiary fires he started as a boy Gives Police Clue. the absence of any ap- e for the remarkable se- the authorities maniac's iden- s seen at an avenue fire yesterday and d as a “man with a limp” Wwho had been seen to leave the flam- ing building just before the blaze was discovered. Taken to a police station he admitted authorship of two letters to Fire Marshal Brophy, in which he had writ- ten that “the man who is setting all these fires is a person of dual per- sonality and a very shrewd person. He will never be caught.” It was to this “dual personality,” parent ries of inc had no clu tity until ‘which he attributed to an attack of | Spinal meningitis which he suffered in 1914, that Gustow credited his mania for the sight of blazing buildings and the subsequent excitement caused by the arrival of fire apparatus and fighters. Causes No Casualties. He told the authorities earnestly that he never caused a fire which resulted in death. He explained that he eraftily started his blazes in untenanted dwellings and lofts, or in such places in tenanted houses that all occupants would be certain to escape the conse- quences of his acts. Gustow said he had never chosen a ations in advance. When the pyromani overcame him, he ex- plained, he merely stuffed some news- papers in his pockets and walked the streets until he found a likely building for his purposes. For a time, at the start of his career, the sending of false alarms of fire satisfied his craving for excitement, he explained. But this soon became too tame to bring about | the desired excitability, he said. VERMONT TO EXTRADITE ALLEGED KLAN ORGANIZER William Moyers, Held in Tennes- see, Said to Have Led Raid on Cathedral. By the Associated Press. BURLINGTON, Vt, August 21.— State officials last night were pre- paring to set in motion legal ma- chinery for bringing William Moyers, alleged Ku Klux Klan organizer, to this State, to stand trial on a charge vers, arrested in New- ., on a charge of grand larceny, was said by the authorities to be the kleagle organizer who led two candidate Klansmen in a raid on St. Mary’s Cathedral here. The authorities assert that Gordon Wells and William McCreedy, candi- dates for Klan membership, were led in the raid in an effort to discredit another kleagle. According to ad- missions by Wells and McCreedy, the police say, the two were informed by Mover that ammunition and guns to be used in a religious war had been stored in the cathedral basement. Both are held in $5,000 bail. : La Guardia Backs La Follette. | CHICAGO, August 1—F. H. La Guardia, New York Representative, Will speak here September 14, in an effort to organize Italian-American ters for the La Follette progressive arty, it was announced at La Fol- Igtte headquarters here. SRR Half the world’s electric light is used in the United States. BRITISH COMPANY GETS " RUSSIAN MINE RIGHTS Concession Granted Moscow Firm With Big English Connection. By the Assoclated Press. MOSCOW, August 21.—A mining concession for zinc, silver, lead and copper at Tyutikha Bay, in the Pria- mur district, has been granted by the council of commissars to the Vladi- vostok firm of Briner & Co., in which the Becos Engineering Corporation of England has an interest. The concessionaires paid the gov- ernment $100,000 for ore lying on the surface of the earth, and has under- taken to spend $150,000 in five years in exploration work and building smelting and other plants. The con- cession is to run for a perlod of 35 years, and the government has re- served to itself the sole right to pur- chase the entire output of the rhines for market. In the days before the war the mines in this vicinity were successfully worked. In 1911 the output was 25,000 tons of zinc, 4,500 tons of sil- ver and lead ore and 72 tons of cop- per ore. The mines were owned by Germans. —— FINDS GIRL WIFE OF MAN Sherfl! Reports New Angle in Case Involving Miss Nash and R. J. Whiddon. | By the Associated Press. “ GAINSVILLE, Fla., August 2L.—Miss Viola Nash, who was shot and dan- 1gemus1y wounded last Friday while in the company of Robert J. Whid- don, was married to Whiddon a short time before the shooting, according to Sheriff P. G. Ramsey of Alachua County. This new angle to the case came to light Tuesday, Sheriff Ram- sey said, when he was informed by Judge Paul Thompson of Gadsen County that the couple were married recently in_ Quincy, Fla. 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