ARSON AND MURDER
CHARGES AGAINST WAITER FIRES AT NEW JERSEY NEW JERSEY, Nov. li A night-club waiter, Hayward Adams, aged 23, stating that he felt like setting fire to things when he had been drinking, admitted that he was the incendiarist who started nine fires early yesterday and 24 last year. In one of these a man was burned to death. Adams first attracted the suspicion of the police when he appeared at several of yesterday's nine fires and helped to extinguish them. He has been arrested on charges of arson and murder.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22578, 17 November 1936, Page 9
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