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Show AttBRTFD -''AKhLulLH Seventy-five Per Cent of Chicago Fires Are Incendiary Chlcngo, Aug 2G Six men are in custody and thp arrest of another has been ordered h3 the pollco In connection with tho operations of an alleged arson ring which is said to bo responsible for fftty Incendiary fires which caused a property loss of $1,000,000 during the last twelve months in Chicago k Three other men, including a former form-er policeman, are being sought by the police in connection with the alleged al-leged conspiracy. Tho men under arrest are David Konshak, former saloon keeper keep-er and leader of the alleged arson ring, who Is snld to have set fire to fifty buildings in Chicago within a year; recently brought back to Chicago Chi-cago from Vancouver, B. C. Charles Bloom, a merchant Max Fellschmld't, a t'lro insurance adjuster Isaac Schaeffner Three barrels of gasoline are said to have"been used In firing the plant of the can company. While being brought back to Chicago from Vancouver, Van-couver, B C , Korshak is said to have n admitted to Detective Loftus that Fink asked him to set fire to the plant and that Korshak wanted $5,000 for the job Fink is said to have refused to pay this amount, declaring that the price was more than It was worth. Seoral weeks later the building burned burn-ed and evidence of incendiarism is said to have been discovered by the pojico. Fire Attorney Sullivan declares de-clares that a charge of arson will bo made against Fink when he is found Bloom, who' has been hooked by tho police on a charge of conspiracy. Is accused of having hired Korshak to set fire to his store, on April 30 Tho stock of goods is said to have been insured for $13,000 while the actual ac-tual value did not exceed ?3.100, according ac-cording to Korshak. Fe.'lschmldt and Schaeffner, who are being held by tho police but are not booked, have, it'Is said, been partly part-ly implicated In tho alleged Incendiary Incend-iary fire at the plant of tho Northwestern North-western Can company, Tho man whose- arrest has been ordered by Fire Attorney Sullivan, is Benjamin Fink, said to be an official of the Northwestern Can company, who Is wanted tor arson in connection connec-tion with the fire at the company's plant May 2G. The arrests were made after Korshak Kor-shak had made a abatement implicating implica-ting soeral business men In the alleged al-leged arson consp'rsi'- . It Is said that ether arrests wc d bo made. Du-Bolstcin is said to have induced Korshak to set fire to his place of business November 29, 1910. causing a loss of $15,000. The building was heavily insured The police also "are said to be looking look-ing for" Daniel Porry, and brother-in-law and business partner of Bloom. Korshak was charged with having set fire to the plant of Leopold Dreyfus Drey-fus & Co., wholesale clothiers, June 3 which resulted in a loss of $10,000 Korshak told the pollco that 75 per cent of all the fire3 which have occurred occur-red in Chicago In the last five years were of incendiary origin and were either the work of the proprietors of the buildings or of professional "firebugs "fire-bugs " -r ,, He says sayg,. there are more than 100 men in Chicago who made a good living by setting ,fire to buildings to enable the owners to collect large sums of Insurance. |