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Show THIS NEW YORK CRANK SAYS HE HAS A MISSION Fire Bug of Gotham Declares That He Was Commanded by the Lord to "Cleanse and Chasten by Fire." New York. Walter K Finney, 211 years old, who, tho police declared, has Informed them that he has a mission mis-sion from the Lord to "cleanso nnd chasten by lire," was arrested Friday charged with setting the series ol fires which created consternation and din considerable damage In tho vicinity of Twenty-third stieet and Eighth nve-nun nve-nun early Friday. The police say that Finney has confessed that ho set one of the tires and that ho was present when several of the other houses wore burning, and also at numerous (Ires in the upper west side within the pnst fow weeks. Finney was arrested In the hallway of a tenement house In Seventeenth slreel near Eighth nve-nue. |