Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1908 — Boy Admits Firing Hotel. [ARTICLE]

Boy Admits Firing Hotel.

Worcester, Mass., Jan. 9.—Charles Goodland, fifteen years old, who kept watch at night in the Beacon Lifcht hotel here, confessed that he set the fire which nearly destroyed the building and resulted In the death of Dennis Driscoll, about a hundred other lodgers having narrow escapes. He had made previous but unsuccessful attempts to burn the place, the police say. His sanity will be tested.