Show GIRL ADMITS SHE SET FIRED B SCHOOL FORMER INMATE OF HOPE DEVELOPMENT DE DE- DE N SCHOOL CON FESSE CRIME Declares Declare She Started the Fire Because Because Be cause cause She Was W. Not Treated Right Believed Mentally Mental ly iy Weak Los Angeles Ca Josephine Bartholomew Bartholomew Bar Dar l year old Inmate of the Hope llop Development school which burred bUn the night of May 31 causing the death of twenty three children and one woman woman has c confessed that she started the fire Her confession came after other children rescued from the building recalled that Josephine had bad been downstairs shortly before the flames were discovered Weeping the girl was brought to the district attorney attorneys attorney's attorneys attorney's ney's ney office by W. W II Prescott head of the juvenile department I UI set the fire because I didn't like things at home the girl said laid between sobs They didn't treat me right I borrowed a match from my roommate in the morning the girl continued I kept it all day That night I went downstairs to the cellar There was war a 11 pile of sacks and ing there I lit the match and watched the UK sacks burn a minute or orso so 10 Oe and then went upstairs to bed Pretty soon the matron began to holler fire so I got up and ran fan an downstairs with the other girls I 1 wasn't afraid I would be burned Because of her mental condition there is no probability the girl will willbe b be b. subjected to legal punishment for lor lorber her ber deed it was admitted Rather she will be put in some safe aale institution for lor treatment it was believed |