REFUSAL OF BAIL.
SETTING FIRE TO CLOTHING. (Per Press Association). AUCKLAND, March 19. John Lewis Gunning, aged 41, a taxi-driver, was charged at the Police Court that he wilfully set fire to clothing so situated that he knew a shop in Dominion Road, belonging to William Scott Miller, would he likely to catch lire. When counsel applied for ibail, the police objected and were about to state the circumstances of the alleged offenoo when counsel objected that this would prejudice the accused's trial. The Magistrate refused bail, but- said that the application could be made to him in chambers.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 51, Issue 135, 20 March 1931, Page 2
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