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Show :,.mS-OWNRSCCGMZMCB Remarkable - Story Told to Magistrate Regarding Burning of Boarding-House at Hurray. . . August Wllrner, who was arrested ; last Friday on a charge of being lmpll-cated lmpll-cated In the burning of the Highland Boy boarding-house at Murray, was arraigned ar-raigned before the Justice of the Peace at Bingham Junction Saturday ' afternoon after-noon and told such a remarkable story that he was released upon his own recognizance. re-cognizance. ',-'.. He admitted that be was the owner of the ill-fated building and that he received re-ceived the J1800. for which it was Insured, In-sured, but denied strenuously that he hired Alex Jennings or any one else to burn the place, or that he knew they were in the plot to fire it until some time afterward. He claimed that the only way he knew of the crime was by Jennings and John Hollman calling upon up-on him and demanding that he pay them $50 for having done the J6b. This he refused to do, whereupon they threatened- to kill him. Jennings, so Wilmer claimed, frequently fre-quently asked 'Wilmer to go into a mining mi-ning deal with blm. Wilmer said he could not go into it because of lack of money., Jennings learned that the building was insured for $1800 and hit upon the scheme, according to Wilmer of firing the house to provide Wilmer with funds. Wilmer also alleged that Jennings was the leader in the plot and hired Wilson and Hollman to do the deed. Wilmer is a widower, 88 years of age, and is a moulder by trade, and has been in the employ of the Silver, Bros, foundry foun-dry for some time. His friends assert that he is of a quiet, law-abiding disposition dis-position and refuse te believe that be was in any way. connected with the offense. of-fense. He was taken to Bingham Junction by Deputy Sheriff Steele and expressed a willingness to give any reasonable bond, but when he told his story he was released on his own recognisance. He owns a home and several acres of ground on Washington avenue, in the southwestern part of the city. |