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THREE ARRESTED AS FIREBUGSThree Massock Brothers of Spring Valley Arrested on Complaint of State Fire Marshal. »2 BUILDINGS BURNED NEW YEARSMysterious Circumstances SurroundingFire Leads to Investigation by tSate Department.Peter, Jacob ami Anton Ma -. -k, three brothers, were taken to Princeton and before Police Magistrate Herron Montbu morning charged with firing Ivm buildings on Dakotta trelt; t in Spring Valley on New Year- day. for the purpose of collecting insurances■’ n the contents of the buildings. Each of the brothers furnished bond'in tin* sum ! of $1000 for their appearance before the I next grand jury.The complaint was made by Deputy i State Fire Marshall Alfred M bite, who | has been working on the ease for some ; time. In the complaint the brothers are charged with unlawfully and maliciously i setting fire to and burning the dwelling i house and business houses, the -aid I dw elling house being occupied by Clift*.| Bluwkis and the business houses being | occupied by one or more of the brothers, situated in the. city of Spring Val-i ley in the county of Bureau, with in-tent to injure the insurers of -aid build 1 ings.The two buildings were located on ' | Dakota street and were formerly imcd by the late Anton Carp One of ihe building- w:r- M brick and in this \[r. 'Carp conducted his undertaking business and used the -ecoml floor for his living quarters. The store building just east : of it was a frame building and has always been used as a saloon. Some time after Mr. Carp’s death the property came into the hands of the Vassock Brnlt;*.At the time of the fire the opinion was expressed by some that the firr was of incendiary origin. The brick build | ing had not been used for other than ■ storing some old vehicles and an examination of these indicated that grease | or oil had been spread over them previous to the fiie. The circumstance** were called to the attention of the state fire marshal and the investigation which followed ha- resulted in the arrest of the three brothers.The buildings which were destroyed were the property of Mr. Walker of Danville, ill. Insurance in the amount of $fJKl was carried on each building, which amount would only cover a small part of Mr. Walker’s km-. The insurance on the buildings was carried thru the Holerkh agency The contents of the buildings were insured in th« agencies of ('. W. Knapp and Mr. Wins-
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Spring Valley Gazette
Spring Valley, Illinois, US
Thu, Mar 07, 1918
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