"FIRE BUG"
AUSTRALIAN SEARCH
CITY HOTEL MYSTERIES (0.c.) SYDNEY, July 23. Detectives are searching for a "fire bug" who has city hotels really worried because of the mysterious fires which he has been causing. He put up a record a week ago by starting 12 fires at four hotels in one afternoon. First he climbed stairs to the garden roof at one hotel and set fire to the contents of a wardrobe. Half an hour later he set fire to paper in a cupboard at another hotel and presently a second fire broke out in a settee in the lounge room of the same premises. While firemen were at work on this a third fire started in the laundry. The fire bug then went to a third hotel where he started seven fires in three rooms on the second floor. At the fourth hotel he went into an unoccupied bedroom and set the beddine alight. After he had started this last fire he apparently telephoned the fire brigade, and asked them "How are the fires going in the hotels?"
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 175, 27 July 1942, Page 5
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179"FIRE BUG" Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 175, 27 July 1942, Page 5
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