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Set Fire to aBig BarnINCENDIARIES AT WORK IN WIRT COUNTY MANAGE TO EVADEARREST.PARKERSBURG, Sept. 20.—Another Incendiary Are with a blood hound fini I 4 t J 1 * . k f . ■ * * • ffsh was reported yesterday from Wlrl county. On Monday night some party or forties set fire to the barn of W. R, Sheppard on Big Run in the Reedydistrict. The barn. and all of its con-ten ts were destroyed.The Are broke put late at night. Tuesday morning a telephone message was sent to MoucdsTllle and Mr. Morrison and his blood hounds arrived on the scene the same evening. The dogs followed the trail of the tncandiaries to a Raw mill, and then appeared to pick It up.and follow it to the I. T r t . ' J-home of a^fomlly named Burk tour miles away. Therh the Incendiaries eilher got on a wagon or mohntfed a horse for the trail * was absolutely*_r-lost. J' * Prosecutor Co pea, of Wirt county said last evening that the family at the home where the doffs stopped was not under suspicion, and In fact there was not the slightest reason to believe they were implicated either be fore or afterIhe fire.r ,y.'\ - - T® -■ • *j I bp4 I A I j ■ f 1 M lt;. 1He Raid some parties were suspected and that infests might follow Immediately, but ar yet nothing could be said. This if the second flro of an lnclt;dlaiy nature in Wirt county In the neighborhood. f . ,
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The Fairmont West Virginian
Fairmont, West Virginia, US
Thu, Sep 20, 1906
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