Cuyler Barton In Custody

Tliere has been a great deal of excitement in the nortlieastern part of thia county over the peculiar burning of sev eral barns, and in view of these facts, the föllowlng irom the Livingston Herald, relative to one upon whom suspicion has rested, will be of interest : "The circumstances of the firing of the former residence of the late Gilbert May in Unadilla village were such that upon inyesügation, prosecuting attorney John Cummiskey, thought it proper to place Cuyler Barton of Unadilla, under arrest, and at this writing he is incareerated in the county ja.il. The fact that the party who lately moved into this house is one of the important witnesses against Barton in an arson case to be tried in the Washtenaw circuit court at Ann Arbor, and the methods made use of to burn the building, are among the things that led to the arrest of Barton. The party who arranged things for the fire entered the building before the present occupants moved in, and whüe the house was vacant entered the garret through a manhole, two of the bricks were removed from the chiinney and some marsh hay thrust in to kindie a blaze with, then a quautity of the hay ■was piled ander the roof boards and moistened with kerosene oil; a bottle filled with oil was also laid thereon to be broken by the flames and thus aid the fiery element in its work. After the fire wás extinguished the broken bottle was fouud and the oil was wrung out of the unirarned hay. The numeróos incendary fires of Unadilla demand that the perpetrator of these destructivo acts be found. Strong suspiciona have long laid. these charges at the door of Cuyler Barton and several times he has been placed under arrest and stood the tests of examinations and a trial for arson, but has so far secured an acquittal. If he is guilty as many believe him to be public safety and the safety of property demand that he be apprehended, for he is, if guilty, one gifted with a cunning and skill in the line of arson that stands without a parallel in a career of crime ever run to earth within the area of Livingston county. If he is guilty we liope he hia come to the end of bis dastardly work : if innocent, his is truly a case of pitiless persecution. Be it as it may, we hope the right will prevail."