FIREBUG IS CAPTURED
Item
- Title
- FIREBUG IS CAPTURED
- Date
- 10/20/02
- page
- 1
- Identifier
- https://lccn.loc.gov/sn84020119
- Crime
- Arson
- Subject
- Arson; Firebug; Serial Arson
- Race of alleged offender
- White alleged offender
- Gender of alleged offender
- Male Alleged offender
- Race of alleged victim
- White alleged victims
- Stage of the Legal System
- Jailed
- Location
- Out of state, MN
- Length of story
- 160
- Description
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FIREBUG IS CAPTURED.
Man Fires Barns Because Women Rejected His Proposals of Marriage. Minneapolis, Oct. 20. Sheriff Dreger lodged Adolph Kadelboch In jail here for having set fire to the barns and warehouses of half a dozen farms near Loretto. The prisoner declares that disappointment in love crazed him. Successive rejection of his wooing by young women of his neighborhood preyed on his mind. He became convinced that their parents were in league to rob him of prospect of happiness. So, he explained, he sought revenge in fire. The farm houses of Charles Piper and Jacob
Spurzem, whose daughters had most recently rejected Kadelboch, were first fired. The torch was applied to the barns of Leonard Miller and Charles Thomas. At the latterís farm Kadelboch was captured. Meanwhile, word had-been sent along the Rockford road that Kadelboch had become crazy and was trying to burn up Hennepin county. Hundreds of farmers stood guard over their homes all night
with shotguns.
