Show fire bug of gotham declares that he was commanded by the ld to cleanse and chasten by fire new york walter E finne 23 years old who the police declared has informed them that he has a mis sion from the lord to cleanse and chasten by fire was arrested friday charged with setting the series ol 01 fires which created consternation and dia considerable damage in the vicinity of twenty third street and eighth ave nue early friday the police say that pinney has confessed that he set one of the fires and that he was present when several of the other houses were burning and also at numerous fires in the upper west side within the pas few weeks finney was arrested in the hallway of a tenement house in seventeenth street near eighth ave nue |