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police said. Henlen and Manross gave signed statements that they; had set fire to the Trax property, the razing of which, J. D, Trax estimated, caused a loss of $15,000.The Trax fire, police said, oc-; cui red on April 30, the same night] that the policemen’s annual ball was in progress at the Knights of Columbus auditorium The alarm that night was sounded about 9:20 p. m. and the resulting heavy traf-■ fice cause by people driving to the scene of the blaze, made it compulsory for a number of local police to leave the ball to handle the traffic.Police said that Henlen and Manross told them that with Wade Remus, Richard Robinson andRobert Weiser they had discussed setting the Trax fire while driving around in an automobile.According to their statement, police said, they had a can of gasoline in the automobile and that it was the intention of the pair to set fire to the barn on the Trax property.They drove to West First st. near the estate and parked the au-| tomobile. The statements, policesaid, revealed that the Trax estate barn was boarded-up and the pair could not gain entrance.Instead they went to the house,police said, where the gasoline was thrown over a pile of papers, on;the doors and walls and that Henlen lit the fire with a cigaret light-' er.After that, police said the statement continued, the pair ran down the nearby hillside to W. First st., | got in the automobile and drove to a point near the Continental Can Co. plant where they waited for about 10 minutes.Their statement to police continued, authorities said, that they then drove to the Mitchell ave. field where they met “the other boys.”I
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Oil City Blizzard
Oil City, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, Oct 19, 1946
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