SEVEN YEARS’ GAOL.
CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT ARSON. (Per Press Association.) PALMERSTON NORTH, Feb. G. iOn charges arising out of the burning down of the Makotuku Hotel on May 8, 1933, Douglas Henry Colin Baker, a brewer, aged 00, was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment with hard labour. “I cannot see a single redeeming feature in the case, said Mr Justice Blair. “There might have been guests in the hotel at the time you prepared, for purely selfish purposes, to endanger human life. There were two charges against Baker—conspiring with Edwin Walter Barringer to commit arson, and second, counselling and procuring Barringer to coirimit the offence, thereby becoming party to and guilty of it. For his part in the episode Barringer has already been sentenced to live years’ imprisonment.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 99, 7 February 1936, Page 3
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