A TERRIBLE CRIME
PRISON FOR 25 YEARS. A man who was well-known as an art collector and connoisseur in Connecticut was recently convicted of arson in an American court, and sentenced to imprisonment for 25 years. The case was one of the very worst on record. After insuring his house and property for £15,000, he employed a painter ostensibly to carry ou|| some decorations, stunned him while at work, and after forcing a chloroform gag into his mouth set fire to the building, which he had previously drenched with petroleum. The intention of the criminal was that the charred body of the painter should be mistaken for his own, and that the insur> ance be collected through an intermediary who was in the plot. Unfortunately for the incendiary, but fortunately for the painter, the latter had not been rendered entirely insensible; he was able to remove the chloroform gag from his mouth and staggered to the window in a half-dazed condition to give the alarm.
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Southland Times, Issue 20537, 13 July 1928, Page 10
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167A TERRIBLE CRIME Southland Times, Issue 20537, 13 July 1928, Page 10
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