People v. Hurwich

Defendants were convicted of the crime of arson, it being claimed that they engaged their employee, Eugene L. Furkas, to set fire to a paper mill in which they were principal stockholders at St. Joseph. Furkas confessed and testified that, on January 28, 1928, he visited defendants, at South Bend, Indiana, where they resided, to obtain money to pay employees at the paper mill, and, while there, was given a check by defendant Hurwich, and defendants asked him to set fire to the mill, and he did so the next day. Defendants denied asking Furkas to burn the mill, claimed he was not in South Bend…