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Show YOUNG BOY IS A BLACKMAILER : j Confesses Incendiary . At- fcr tempts on Telephone Com- jj pany Buildings and Send- 'i ing of Letters. . ' fill Council Bluffs, Iowa, SepL 7. A v fti number of mysterious fires in the property of the Iowa Bell Telephone ? Jk company here, involving several thons- f j and dollars los, and letters threaten- ' 1 Ing death to various officers of the " ft) company, were explained last night E; by tho alleged confession to tho police of Adblph Elgan, aged 15, that he was -; ? solely responsible. ff The boy is the son of Frank Elgan. i .X police commissioner, and omi of ths . '. 5 chief officers of the telephone com- J g, pany. The Elgan home was one of iff the buildings against which one of the 1 J incendiary attampts was made ( VJ The motive of the hoy, who is said ' to be bright and to have always borne ; Jj? a good reputation, has not been made ? -J. clear. . r |