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Show BURN THEIR HOME TO GET INSURANCE B. Salt Lake, Feb 5. Carl Scott, 18 years old, and Frank Scott, 22 years colored vesterdav afternoon confessed confess-ed to Chief of Police B F Grant and Fire Chief V. H By water that they had deliberately set fire to their home at 2.54 West Second South street lasl Sunday night at 9 o'clock. Their mother, Mrs. Mary Scott. 41 years of age, confessed that she knew of the intentions of her sons The three had planned to secure ?700 Insurance In-surance which was carried on 'he contents of the home. The house and furnishings were completely destroy -ed. As a result of the three confessions con-fessions complaints will today be asked ask-ed of the county attorney Tho exact ex-act charge which will be made against them has not yet been definitely decided de-cided upon. The arrest of the three was due primarily to the work of Chief By water wa-ter and secondarily to Detectives il-Mam il-Mam Zeese and Herbert Lelchter. who brought the trio to the city jail Chief B'v water noticed after the fire had been extinguished that a door leading to the upper floor ol th house was scorched on one side and m not on the other, although the fire raged on both sides The. chief was of the opinion that if the blaze found downstairs had come from the lloor above, or if the reverse had been true that the door must necessarily have been burned on both sides. The upper up-per floor was not burned through ThiB indicated that the fire was burning burn-ing in two separate and distinct places, a rarp thing unless the blaze be of incendiary origin Monday morning two postal cards l) were receUed by Chief By water, both signed " H H.." and both suggesting suggest-ing that the house had been set afire Another letter was received yesterday yester-day signed with the same initials and indicating that the writer had seen the Scott youths remove n trunk f from the house to a wood shed Just i before the fire. This was investigated investigat-ed and found to be true When the trio were confronted with the accumulated accu-mulated evidence they confessed. Chief By-water notified the insurance insur-ance companies Involved of the confessions con-fessions It was then fouud that originally orig-inally but $500 had been carried on the furniture, but that, this had been increased to $700 within the last few days The house itself was the property jB of Mrs. W. C, Burton and was fully-insured. fully-insured. She will be paid her lnsur-I lnsur-I ance. |
