New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 8, 1930, Page 5

ot « Highly Organized Fire- hugs Collect Over and Over On Same Goods— Police Determined to Stamp Out Racketeers. Buffalo. N. Y., April § (P—Police said today that insurance companies | have been muleted of nearly §4,000,- 000 during the past seven years by | a gang of firebugs which has oper- | ated in western New York principal- ly in Buffalo. The Buffalo police de- partment arson squad, cooperating with representatives of various in- surance concerns, has determined that the organized incendiarics num- ber seven. The police expect to ar- rest all members of the gang within a few days. | Renewed activity on the part of | the Jaw minions has been prompted by several recent mysterious explo- sions and fires, the latest of which on' Sunday morning last, destroyed 10 stores in Kenmore, a suburb of Buffalo. Methods Disclosed The plan of the arson gang. ac- | cording to police .is to approach a| house or store owner and suggest | that he permit the gangster to blow | up the place while he is away, the| gang to take 10 per cent of the building's insurance and five per| cent of the furniture insurance. In| order, to increase the insurance, a vast amount of furniture and valu-! able goods 'are moved in. Then the | contents gradually and secretly arc| moved to another house which would | be blown “later.” [ When nearly all the contents have been removed, the place is destroy- | ed. The same procedure is followed | for the next touch off, the gang col-| lecting insurance each time on the | same contents. Jn some instances, after the owner has collected the insurance, the touch off men have | demanded and received, under threat | of death, the entirc amount of in: surance collected. | In the s led “shooting” of a house or store, a piece of punk a foot long is suspended over a pan | of gasoline. Then alcohol. gasoline or some other highly inflammable substance is spread all about the place. On the punk, near the end. are attached matches and a heavily soaked cloth containing gasoline. | The punk is lighted. All participants zet out of town and several hours later the burning punk sets fire to the matches, the cloth catches fire and drops into the pan of liquid, the hurning liquid is thrown over the room and into the spread alcohol, | and the place is blown to bits. An additional source of revenue to | the gang has been weekly collections | from cortain storekeepers of stated | amounts, under threat of burning the stores if they refused 1o comply | | with the demands. Threaten Detective Tolice determination to break up the gang has been increased by a | threat made against the life of | Simon J. Callinan, detective ser- geant attached to the arson squad “Three men told police last night they | had heard the firebugs discussing details of a plan to attach a bomb to the self-starter of Callinan’s nu- fomobile, in an effort to put alli- nan out of the way. The bomb-to-a starter idea was worked succ ly in Niagar Falls a few years when a dry law enforcement was the victim of rum runners. PARK BOARD MEETS | IN LAST SESSION G. W. Prentice Offers Four| Pheasants for Public Display | TRealizing the possibility of changes in the personnel of the park board after the biennial city election to- ay, members of the commission Jast | night disposed of as much business | on the books as possible. Tt was the last meeting of the present board. | Judge William J. Mangan presided. Clerk A. Serg and Commis- wioner 7. 12. Crandall reported that they had held a conference with the board of water commissioners rela- tive to the proposed extension of a water main to the municipal golf course site. Superintendent Clyde Ellingwood | reported that George W. Prentice of Berlin had offered to present five prize pheasants worth §100 to the park department to be placed in pens at Walnut Hill park. The board fecls that the city would not approve the starting of a menagerie at Walnut Hill park but would be | glad to place the pheasants in Wil- | low Brook park or Stanley Quarter park. Mr. Ellingwood will confer with Mr. Prentice. The Y. M. C. A. golf instructor will be permitted to coach pupils | on the new golf course, to a vote. "There was conslderable discussion | of prices asked for propert ting on the Stanley tract w hoard wants to purchase. Two own- | crs are said to be asking exorbitant prices. The board is contemplating starting condemnation proceedings, it is said. Provided the air be clear, an aviator at an elevation of 6,000 fect can see more than 60 miles, All In Intestinal poisons are sapping your energy, stealing sour pep, making vou ill. Take N —NATURE'S RENEDY—the safe, dependable, vegetable lazative. Keepayouteeling ¥ y0-morrROW right. Get a25c box. @ ALRIGHT The All-Vegetable Laxative TO-NIGHT | [and costs, according | | P S e R U SN, Dead Man Cannot Vote In Michigan Elections Lansing, Mich., April 8 (P— A dead man may not vote legally in the state of Michiga A resident of Ow hospital, sent for an absentee voter's ballot, marked it and had it mailed to the city clerk. He died before yesterday's clection. The clerk of Shiawassce county asked the attorney general whether the vote could be count- ed. Attorney General Wilber M. Brucker ruler that a man's ballot not be counted in an eclection held after he is d DRIVER RELEASED “TOPAYS100 FINE Gonvicted of Operating Car With License Suspended John Letitia, 22, of 364 Elm street, who went to jail because of of $10 0and costs imposed in police court on March 28 on the charge of driving| an automobile while his license was | mder suspension, was releascd fo- day and placed on probation by or-| der of Judge M. D. Saxe. | Judge Saxe said Letitia has paid part of the fine and will pay the rest in instaliments while on proba- tion. He was arrested hy Officer Lo- vines k. Johnson on Lalke street and | admitted that he had driven from | Franklin street although he knew it | was a serious offense under the law, | to handle & car on the public streets while his license was under suspen-| sion. Judgd Stanley J. ed of the other cases in police court | today, orderinga week’s continu- | ance in the non-support case of samucl Cassile, 2 street, and imposing a fine with fine @ mitted, in the c O'Brien, 26, of 296 Eas Al Meriden, who pleaded guilty to the | charge of peddling without a li- inability to pay a finc aceski dispos- | {J. O'Mara in a house Arson Gang Sought In Buffalo | Has Obtained $4,000,000 Through Insurance Fraudulently Collected | Officer Danicl J. Cosgrove had traf- fic stopped but the I | ply. Mc cense. - He was arrested yesterday afternoon by Detective Sergeant I BRITAIN'S Piques. . . Sizes Just 237 Dresses! They tomorrow! THE BIGC STORE WEDNESDAY ! Tag This Value! Spring WASH DRESSE Kimono . . . Elbow Sleeves purchase which our New York office made. 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