Arson and Sabotage

Abstract

This paper was presented at the Tenth (1954) Seminar in Arson Investigation, Purdue University. Its author, Joseph E. Lockwood, is District Fire Marshal, Eighth Naval District, New Orleans. Since 1924 he has been continuously active in the fields of fire fighting, fire protection, and arson investigation. In 1942 after 18 years service with the Plainfield, N. J., Fire Department, he was assigned duty with the U. S. Naval Intelligence as an arson investigator. After the war (1946) he assumed civilian status as Fire Marshal, U. S. Navy Amphibious Base, Little Creek, Va., and in 1950 was transferred to his present civilian assignment.-EDITOR.