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Show PROSECUTION MAY BE YERY BITTER NEWARK, N. J. Xov. 2S "If I find auy city or state olflclal guilty of neglect in the inspection of this building,' said County Prosecutor Moll today, as be stood by the ruins of the factory in which twenty-four girls loHt their lives by lire last Snuir- ay, "there will be the bilterest kind oi prosecution.'" A coioners jur was sworn in, tho first of lis kind that has Pat hr-ic in twenty tours. County phlci.Mis or-c'lnarily or-c'lnarily ' perform such tasks. There also will be such inquiries by the grand Jury, stale labor department and the city buildliiK department. Had Adequate Fire Escapes. The destroyed building ttas the rroperty of Miss Barbara Glass, who 1 as Issued a statement tli.it the structure struc-ture was adequately equipped with hre escapes. Funerals of many ol ibe victims v. ere held today. Many of the girls and women killed were supporting their families. One woman left a biind daucbter aluut penniless, and there is much actual want in other households. A relief fund has now reached $2,OWO. Labor Commissioner's Statement. TRENTON'. X. J.. Nov. .'S General Lewis T. Rryanl, state commissioner of labor, today made an Investigation ii lo the fire at Newark lat Saturday, in which twenty-four prrsons lost, their lives. ' At the conclusion, Gen-oi Gen-oi ul Hryaut Issued a statement absolving absolv-ing tho owners. "The records." he said, ' show that the owners conformed to all the lire regulations Imposed on theni by the state, and that the building was. absolutely abso-lutely safeguarded with lire escapes as provided by law." mm 1 ' Liif'J'J '- . m,...mn. |
