“ARSON RING IN HAMILTON IS SUSPECTED,” Owen Sound Sun Times. June 10, 1932. Page 1. ---- Provincial Fire Investigator Hints at Possibility ---- Conducting Investigation Into Explosion at Durso Home ---- (Canadian Press Despatch) HAMILTON, June 10. — Possibility of the existence of an arson ring in this city was expressed by Alfred Burnett, provincial fire investigator, in an interview here today.
Burnett, with Foley Barnett, district fire marshal's officers and a detective from the local police department is conducting an investigation into the explosion at the home of G. Durso last Sunday night. Today, six persons were examined by the officials and six more are to be questioned later. None of these examined knew anything about the fire. Burnett declared he refused to divulge the names of those questioned.
The investigation includes not only the Durso explosion, but a number of fires that have broken out in the northwest and northeastern section of the city during the past few months.