Word: arsons
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Nobody knows. Perhaps a drunkard threw a cigaret in a wastepaper basket. Perhaps there was a short circuit. Perhaps radicals set the blaze. Captain Warms and, by no coincidence, the whole Ward Line leans to the last theory. If arson can be proved, the line will be freed of criminal negligence liability. The owners of the Vestris were sued for $5,000,000 in personal liability claims...
...pocket, splashed it over the canvas, yanked the caricature from the wall, touched a match to it. The flames flickered out quickly, but the picture was ruined. Housewives fled screaming. John Smiukse was instantly arrested. While Mr. Birch-Field and Jere Miah II conferred whether to make the charge arson or malicious mischief, reporters found John Smiukse in the Tarrytown police station...
...hero of a U. S. cinema epic. Such is not the case. Viva Villa, with adroit omissions and exaggerations, makes Mexico's most famed outlaw an estimable child of nature, noble if crude, an illiterate amalgamation of Don Quixote, Dillinger and Napoleon, wrhose more serious misdemeanors, like robbery, arson, lechery and wholesale slaughter of prisoners, are excusable on the grounds of good intentions...
...venal a heart those medals covered Londoners first discovered last November, at the end of a scandalous trial of a huge arson ring. Before he was sentenced to 14 years in jail, the ringleader, one Leopold Harris, testified that he had had nearly every Salvage Corps officer in his pocket. Of the ring's ?500,000 annual takings in insurance, Captain Miles had received a paltry ?25 a month for overlooking cases of suspected arson...
Commented a high Nazi official in Berlin, "It was a concession that he was not hanged. The [retroactive] law specifies hanging for political arson but hanging is a shameful death. Van der Lubbe was spared that...