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Show A IIAIIY IMKKllltRV, A.-reit of a B.Year-Old lior at liullan-aiobiu liullan-aiobiu . ' Indianapolis, Ind., July 8. Fur two or three weeks tho ptdiee have been puzzled by incendiary tires iu the southern part of tho city. Wednesday Antioch church was mysteriously tired, and a little girl in thu vicinity said that "ho saw a 5-year-old boy, Johnny Hampden, running from the structure just a the bhizu burst out. Investigation Investiga-tion satislied tho police that the latlwas the lirobtig, and ho was arrested and brought to the mayor's court on a warrant war-rant charging him w ith the crime. Just before the trial ho confessed to setting Ihe church on tire, ami said that ho hd also fired tho Excelsior works and Flick's livery stable, both of which were burned a short time ago, and several sev-eral stables iu the neighborhood. The only reason that ho gave for thus destroying de-stroying property tva.s that lie "wanted to see the tire department horses run." The mayor held him over to the criminal crim-inal court. |