Show A DANGEROUS CLASS ONE of the most blooming rascals that has been unearthed for some time is bernard blume the leader of a gang of fire bugs the seat of whose operations was jersey city it seems from later developments that this gang was but one of a large number of others located in many of the large cities with chicago as the head centre A number of mysterious fires that occurred a short time ago in the city last named are understood to have had a similar origin to those of jersey city the tha police were about to put their hands upon th the dep depereda reds tors but the arrest of blume put the rascals on their guard A fellow named lake is the head bead of a similar villainous band in boston and he be is understood to hail from cha chicago go the last arizona legislature enacted a statute making train robbery a capital offense within the borders of that territory if there is any difference of degree in the matter of heinousness between that crime and the business in which blume and his confederates have been engaged it falls in favor of the latter they not only rob the insurance companies and destroy the property they rent for that purpose but also much that is contiguous to it in addition they end endanger diger the lives of their fellow bein gsand doubtless aria are the means of destroying them in many instances civilized society has no use for such hideous monsters and we ve presume it would not do violence to the feelings feeling of the general public if laws were enacted rendering the perpetrators of crimes of such enormity as those of which they are guilty subject to the most extreme penalty within the penal code |