Aw interesting variety has been given to the usual dull monotony of police work in the Settlement by the report of mysterious fires that occa a Chinese residence situated in an alleyway off Mohawk Road. The house is numbered 1131 and is part of terrace that was rebuilt lately on the site of one that was destroyed by fire two years ago. Neither gas nor electricity is connected with thege houses and the present occupant lived there in peace until month ago when there began a series of fires which he estimates at a total of 100 and the police at half that number. The house is insured for a reasonable sum, bat the owner has given publicity to the outbreaks and appears perfectly sincere in his belief that an lo for the fires. the flames have been put out before any damage was done, The owner called in the police on Monday and while Det.-Sgt. Fitzgibbon was making an examination of the premises a fire started in a perambalafor and the cause could not be discovered: On Tuesday afternoon Det. Insp. Armstrong and Insps. Wilson and Macintosh visited the place and while they were there " fire was seen in an old box containing " few rags and some rubbish in the yard. The Inspectors had been standing near the box for some time and bad just gone away for about 8 minute when they returned to the yard. It might, the Imsectors concede, hare been just possible for some one to have lit the fire in their absence. One most remarkable feature of the that the fires never begin at night so it is safe to conemde thet the trickster who is causing the alarm does not desire to destroy the promises outright. The police investigations are being continned.
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