Show STARTED FIRE FELL A VICTIM body found in ruins of store identified and arrest follows pueblo colo oct 11 following an inquest held behind closed doors over a body found in the ruins of the gold bergei store coroner J J mcdonnell ordered the arrest ot max goldberger proprietor of the store goldburger was taken into custody tonight by chief of police W F mccafferty and under sheriff im oleary at his home quincy street and placed in jail the police say a charge of arson and probably murder hlll be filed against him tomorrow the inquest developed tho fact that the dead mah was without a doubt charles alias fred burton of denver hathaway was employed here at tha oriental cafe as a waiter and the authorities ties believe lia was engaged by goldberger to set fire to the building but was caught by the sudden explosion of gasoline and burned to death several years ago hathaway was sent to the reformatory from denver for grand larceny the verdict of the coroners jury which was rendered at 6 this afternoon is as follows we the jury find that alias fred Burton came to alg death at the county of pueblo state of colorado on september 29 1907 by reason and as the result of an explosion of gasoline and gas and a fire following such explosion which fire commenced in and burned the building known as and partially destroyed on south union avenue and that the alre was of incendiary cen diary origin at the hands of and under the direction of max goldberger and charles hathaway alias fred burton and that said fire was felonious and that the death of charles hathaway alias fred burton occurred in the perpetration of the crime of arson in the destruction of the above described the authorities who have been working on the case since the alio occurred sunday night september 29 were determined that the which they have should not be made public attorney M G saunders and joseph dyer representing goldburger demanded the right to be present but this was refused and they left the room under protest they gave public instructions to goldberger to refuse to answer any questions put to him at the inquest unless they were allowed to be present according to reports goldberger kept his shut and Is still refusing to talk al though the investigation wa conducted in secret much of tho leaked out i the most important testimony given by walter freund formerly denver freund came to pueblo hathaway september 15 he intro deuced II athaway to goldberger goldberger had sounded aim as to ideas on incendiary alres the friday before the alre freund met hathaway on the street and hathaway him that he had taken a contract clean clothing for goldberger was then on his way to buy gasoline freurd accompanied him and purchased the gasoline some of testimony was somewhat himself but he afterwards his part satisfactorily it was shown by testimony that immediately after hathaway had held several conferences with goldberger he suddenly had plenty of money whereas before that he wag in straitened circumstances A woman with whom he was well acquainted that hathaway had told her that would soon have plenty of money would be able to buy her a of things thiet she mantej W 0 of the acme rooming house identified a vest which was found on ahei dead man as worn by hathaway when he with her he then went under th I 1 name of barton hathaway feared ano night of the alre and had not seen him since A which the police department from denver was shown to mrs skin ncr and she identified the original 8 L schon testified that a young man bought three of gasoline from him before the alre when shown the picture of he wis sure that he stranger wag same person |