Tricks of Firebugs EXPOSED BY POLICE EXPERTS (Jul, 1933)

I particularly like the story about the cops allowing arsonists to set fire to a building full of innocent people just so they could “catch them in the act”.

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Tricks of Firebugs EXPOSED BY POLICE EXPERTS
By Robert E. Martin

ITS engine throttled down, a black touring car swung noiselessly into the driveway of an unoccupied house on Long Island, thirty miles from New York City. Two men hastily entered the building carrying bundles and cans. It was three o’clock in the morning. The owner was hundreds of miles away on his vacation.

Twenty minutes later, neighbors tumbled from their beds at the sound of a terrific explosion. Through its shattered windows, they saw the vacant house lighted up by a plume of yellow flame flaring half across the basement from a broken gas pipe. Two dark figures were picking themselves up from the front yard outside one of the windows. They scrambled into the touring car, backed swiftly into the street, and raced away.
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