TWO MEN ACCUSED.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 60, 21 December 1935, Page 3

TWO MEN ACCUSED.

FIRES AT INGLEWOOD. /Per Press Association); NEW PLYMOUTH, December 20. Pleas of not guilty to joint charges of arson arising out of fires at Inglewood were made by D’Arcy Henry Gyde, a butcher, aged 23, a married man with two children, and Gordon Joseph Sattler, a painter, aged 24, single, in the Now Plymouth Magistrate’s Court this morning. On joint charges the accused were committed to the Supreme Court for trial. Sattler pleaded guilty to a further charge of arson arising out of a fire at Inglewood more than a year ago, and was committed for sentence. No application for bail was made. The joint charges against Gyde and Sattler were of wilfully setting fire to a two-storey dwelling-house in Matai Street, Inglewood, the property ‘(valued at £200) of Alfred Ernest Surrey, on September 27, and of wilfully setting fire to a two-storey iron building m Standish Street, Inglewood, the property of the estate of the late Job Walker Winfield, valued at £SO, on December 11. . : ... Sattler was further charged with wilfully setting fire to a six-roomed dwelling-house at Inglewood, the property of the executors of the late V iiliam Marshall, v!alu.ed at £4OO, on November 21, 1934. ___