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Your issue of Oct. 22, p. 16, referring to the burning of Helicon Hall: "An arson charge was brought against Sinclair, but subsequently dropped...
...there were not a George Dimitroff in the life of Hermann Wilhelm Göring, it might be necessary to invent one. When Comrade Dimitroff was on trial in the famed Reichstag arson case, Prussian Premier Göring, through whose official residence the fire bugs apparently entered, screamed in open court: "I am not afraid of you, you rascal! You have reason to fear that I'll catch you when you're out of prison! You dirty rascal! You dirty rascal !" This scene Elmer Rice has put into a play (TIME, Sept...
...furnace. Englewood, then as now a tycoons' home ground, took an instant dislike to the Helicon Hallers and their host, who used to go around the town in old corduroys, flannel shirt and sandals. The place burned down one March night in 1907, killing a drunken carpenter. An arson charge was brought against Sinclair, but subsequently dropped. And the New York Press inspired Sinclair's The Brass Check, when it developed the yarn that Helicon Hall had been a "free-love" colony...
Into the business of arson enter three parties: 1) the owner of a well-insured establishment. 2) the middleman, 3) the firer. An arson-bound store owner can find many a middleman who, for some $2,000, will arrange a fire. But the middle-man can find few skillful firers. Bertha Warshovsky, Chicago's most expert firer, knows most of arson's middlemen. Some ten years ago she began to make money by fabricating and selling to arsonists a gadget consisting of a short candle tightly bound with kitchen matches. Price: $5 to $10. Later when she found...
Last June Chicago police rounded up many a middleman, announced that they had smashed a "million dollar" arson ring. Three weeks ago they decided to tidy up the last stray clue by picking up fat Bertha, whose only connection with the case seemed to be that her son-in-law had been arrested. Much to their surprise, she began to talk. Last week she was still talking, spouting a voluble stream of names, addresses, dates, fees...