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Show Scientific Firebug Destroys Churches MONTREAL. April 19. Police today redoubled their search for a reli pious pvroruanlac following the burning Tuesday night of the his torii Notre name convent here the ihird important Catholic edifice I hi linada to be destroyed by fire In less than a month. The trail oi the suspect first was crossed April 14. when a fireman fighting a conflagration which destroyed the Church of the Sacred Hearl here with a loss of $500,000 heard a man in the crod of spectators exclaim: ex-claim: MSt Bridges will be the next and then I will get the rest " The man escaped but an investigation at that time convinced the police a scientific firebug, specializing in crossed electric wire", had cau6ed the fire, as well as the one which a week earlier destroyed the famous Bascilica of Ste. Anne de Baupre, bousing the famous shrine of St. Anne, which was known as the "Lourdes of America." In both cases the fires were found to have been started by crossed I electric wires. Further investigation showed that a man posmg as an electrician had sought admittance to St Vincent de Pauls |