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Show Dan Clark Tells How He Happened Hap-pened to Be Arrested on "Fire Bug" Charge Dan Clark, janitor of tho Lorin Fan-school Fan-school objects to notoriety gained, by reason of what he says is an innocent sequence of circumstances which re- suited in his being arrested by Ogden police, taken to tho city ail, and exam- inert on suspicion of being tho "renowned "re-nowned but unknown firebug" who jmay have had something to do with tho fire at the Grant school a week ago. Mr. Clark's. story Is this: Yesterday evening he was making his way back to the school whore he lives In a room furnished for his habitation; on the j way he met an old minor named Andor-1 son, whom he does not know and had ' not met before. Anderson complained ; of suffering from lead poisoning and! Clark recommended a remedy, a quan-' tity of which he had in his rooms u ithor he Invited Anderson to accompany accom-pany him; trying to open the door of the school his key broke, and ho re ported to a window and gained entrance en-trance thereby, procured the medicine which he gave to Anderson who Immediately Im-mediately took his departure for regions re-gions unknown. It seems that some girls in the district dis-trict saw Clark making his entry into the school by a window and thinking ho might be a firebug promptly told their parents who called the police with the result as stated. Mr. Clark has been in the employ of tho city board of education for about threo years and possesses an exemplary exem-plary character, said Supt. W. Karl Hopkins this morning. "We are sure tnero is nothing to the suspicion cast upon Mr. Clark," J |