Show I I i NEW YORK CRANK HAS A MISSION I Commanded by the Lord to Cleanse and Chastise by Fire New York Nov Koy 23 Walter E Fin Finney Finne Finney ney ne 23 2 years ears old who the police de declared dared has informed them that he has hasa a mission from Crom the Lord to cleanse and chastise by fire was arrested to today today today day charged with setting the series of tires fires which created consternation and did considerable damage in the vicinity of street and Eighth ave aye avenue avenue nue flue early yesterday The police say I that has confessed that he set one of the fires and that he 11 was pres pros present ent when several of the time other houses were burning and also at numerous fires in the tho upper west side within the past rast few weeks Finney was arrested in the hallway of a tenement t house in iii Seventeenth street near Eighth avenue today toda Attracted Attention His fils strange antics had attracted the attention of a policeman who followed him when he entered the hallway of the house What are you up to asked the time po policeman leave me alone lIone replied Finney I walk around a great deal and sonic some sometimes times go as far as street Two detectives who had trailed Fin Fiti Finney Finne ney imey ne and the policeman say sa they the entered the hallway Just In time to hear Fin Fiti Finney Hey nev tell the policeman that he lie had bad a to perform What kind of a mission he was asked On the Lords Mission The Lord has given me inc a certain cerLin mission to perform Finney is said to have replied You would woud not set fire to a tenement house would you asked the time police policeman policeman man nian manT r T certainly would Finney is said sald to have answered I would chastise and cleanse them by fire Were you ou at the tile fire at street yesterday morning No was reply but I was vas s told about It by b the Lord I l was to the fires in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Eight streets Made Confession I The Tho police pollee declare that the boy con confessed confessed 1 f to setting fire to the tenement house at 30 West Yest Seventeenth street t yesterday morning He lie is 11 quoted by the time police as saying he was passing 30 West Seventeenth street when n the Lord I told him to cleanse and chastise them th m by fire He Ife went into the hallway he heis heIs i is said to have told the police and ant piled a lot of paper pap r against the gas Jet md set s t fire to the place Finn Finno y lives with his widowed moth mother er not far from where he lie was wag arrested rl Tinney Finney was sent s nt to Bellevue for livo tivo days da s for examination n as to his sanity |