SUICIDE TO AVOTD ARREST.
INCENDIARISM IN CHICAGO
CHICAGO, June 8. Taking advantage of a few minutes' grace before his arrest on ,a charge of incendiarism, Leopold Dreyfus, hea-d of a large clothing firm, committed suicide by shooting himself. The police had extracted a confession from Dreyfus that ho was a party to the burning of his premises, and that he had promised that on collecting the insurance he would pay £1000 to the men b.v whom the place was actually set on fire.
Those men, Dreyfus told the police, were professional incendiaries, who ir-ade a business of burning places down for those desiring to defraud insurance companies:
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12765, 16 June 1911, Page 7
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107SUICIDE TO AVOTD ARREST. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12765, 16 June 1911, Page 7
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