Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Robert Hubert" in English language version.
...at first he said he'd started it in Westminster, which the fire never even got near..."
... a few years later the master of the Maid of Stockholm testified that the young man, who was bound for Rouen, was on board his ship when the fire broke out.
...and everyone blames the open door of Farriner's oven."
Many years later a Swedish ship's captain testified that he had landed the watchmaker ashore two days after the fire had started.
... he claimed to have had accomplices had stopped the water cocks for the water supply of London so that the fire could not be fought effectively (during the fire the reservoirs of water kept in the city for such an eventuality were strangely dry). Hubert (who claimed he was an agent for the French) ...
Hubert confessed to having started the fire by throwing a crude fire grenade through an open bakery window.
...at first he said he'd started it in Westminster, which the fire never even got near..."
... he claimed to have had accomplices had stopped the water cocks for the water supply of London so that the fire could not be fought effectively (during the fire the reservoirs of water kept in the city for such an eventuality were strangely dry). Hubert (who claimed he was an agent for the French) ...
... a few years later the master of the Maid of Stockholm testified that the young man, who was bound for Rouen, was on board his ship when the fire broke out.
