People v. Ales

Between midnight and one o’clock in the morning of January 3, 1925, the Fire Department was called upon to. extinguish a fire at 141 Ten Eyck street in the borough of Brooklyn. The building was a five-story brick store and tenement house. One hundred and two persons lived in the building. The defendant leased and operated a barber shop on the first floor. The fire was in the barber shop. The chairs and towels in the shop were soaked with gasoline. Apparently the fire had been started at several places in the shop. The fire marshal’s office was informed of the condition surrounding the fire.…