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Show -CENTRAL PACIFIC TRAIN WRECKER -Auburn, Cal, June 3. .Mautros K. Murtrofi, under arrest here. Is said to have made a confession of nn attempt at-tempt to wreck a passenger train on thej. Central Pacific road Wednesday by placing spikes and fishplates on the5, rails: also of starting a flro that d'troed a dance hall at tho town of Towle. In Placer county. According Accord-ing to his story, his alleged Incendiary Incen-diary work was prompted by the town ufuslng to give him bread and the aftvmpt to wreck ihe train by his failure to Induce the Towle station agent to give him a ticket to New , York. I A trainman on a gravity car found the, obstruction placed on the railroad rail-road tracks in time to prevent the possible derailment of the Atlautic . express. |