Abstract
In the predawn hours of a September morning in 1873, a large bank barn belonging to Daniel Durst, located in the rich Penns Valley of Centre County, Pennsylvania, burned to the ground. Soon after the fire, it became apparent that some one had torched Durst's barn deliberately. An item in the local newspaper reported: Tracks of a person who wore rubber shoes, were detected in the dust leading from the Old Fort hotel to the barn and from the barn back again to the hotel pavement, and on Friday evening Sheriff Shaffer arrested Jacob Durst, a nephew of the owner of the barn, near Centre Hill, on suspicions, as he wore rubber shoes, and lodged him in jail for fur ther examination. Jacob Durst was eventually convicted of arson and sentenced to serve time
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