Show CATS TAUGHT TO FIGHT LAMPS AND START FIRE FIDE 1 Uy By y C. C D. D WEST I Commercial criminals would not pick picka a mans man's pocket they would not do a a. person bodily h harm rm They ar are are far too clever for that They are polished gentlemen gentlemen gen gen- Well educated and extremely smart The most common methods of beating beating beat beat- ing the law are the concealment of assets transfer of oC stock with the aid of a false burglary or fire and the dishonest claims of ot debts contracted and paid usually to relatives Often OCten It is necessary to contend with an organized gang operating in several several sev sev- eral cities and controlling arson and burglary gangs shippers receivers law lawyers ers and others It is the man higher up the master master mas ter mind that we are most concerned In getting Many Man of their workers I are merely dupes Sixteen men higher up in ChicagO Chica Chica- go were responsible for three failures aggregating of which has already been recovered While Investigating a case in Paterson Pater- Pater son r N N. J J not long ago aero I 1 became imi interested interest d in the disappearance of a dozen satchels used for transporting animals n m and I decided to trace face them L to I 1 found Philadelphia iWi that they had been shipped and then to Chester Pa To Chester I 1 went to the hom home of oC the mans man's father whom I 1 found found to be apparently interested in cats But upon further search I 1 discovered the reason The cats were being trained to fight lamps and when their the training for was each Ench completed they were sold old I Thus when a man wanted a a ft- ft fire In his store all an that was was for him necessary was I to ifor purchase In on one one- of thes these ani- ani mala mals and leave leava it in his store with a lamp then go home and go to bed assured that while he slept the cat would knock over oyer the light and his shop would be destroyed by fire The setting of or fires tires in a store however however how how- ever docs does not aid bankrupts in gettin getting i Insurance for the Insurance Is money paid to the creditors of oC the fire Is to toc cover vr up the The removing purpose of the ho goods Or the assess concealment assets of the While Insurance is being paid for a fire i in one city often the same articles are being used sed in another anther city stock another to help hep prospective failure Some time aff ago x I secured an ap indictment indict indict- ment of a man from the East Side of oC New ew York who had one of the finest schemes for setting fires that I have ever encountered He Ire was head of an arson pang gang which specialized in setting C CHe fires wherever or and whenever desired He would set a a. candle candll In the e center of an ordinary lard hU bucket ket pack pick the top of th the cover ar around Und the candle with cotton and then around th the outer edge of oC the top would place little sticks stringing twine or thread around these posts and at regular intervals would suspend little sacks filled line on the string with gasoline gaso- gaso Then having made a study of the len length th of oC time lime required for a candle to burn down clown and of the various sorts of and candles he would light the candle could go away with the exact knowledge e of the time at which the fire fir would oCcur The candle would heat hat the gasoline and cause a strain and then cotton when the was waR ignited the gasoline would explode wIth such force that the pieces would be blown to all parts of the and room no evidence could be found |