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Show FIREBUGS j ARRESTED One Hundred Fourteen Four-teen Warrants Issued for Members of Arson Ring- Chicago. March IS. One hundred and fourteen warrants for the alleged members of the arson ring were Issued Is-sued by Judge Wade In the municipal munici-pal court today at the instance of Assistant As-sistant State's Attorney Johnston. Twenty-eight of the men named in the warrants are business men, some of l hem wealthy Their names were rot made public pending arrest When arrests are made on today's warrants the total number of persons taken Into custody will aggregate 44 alleged to have been Implicated 111 10 fires from which a total of $800,000 was collected In insurance. More to Be Issued Johnston declared that 8 large number num-ber of warrants growing out of smaller smal-ler fires probablv would be issued later The present warrants were based on alleged guilt in connection with SO fires. In some cases three warrants char-gitiK char-gitiK separate olien-i - were taken out against one person Thev charge arson, ar-son, burning to defraud and conspiracy conspir-acy to defraud In the arson cases the bonds were fixed at $40,000, and i where there was an additional charts against an individual chaiged with arson an additional $20,000 bond was required. |