ALLEGED ARSON.
TWO MEN ARRESTED AS ACCES
SOKIES,
It will be in the recollection ot our readers that some months aeo the Wade Hotel, of which Mr Kelly was the landlord, was totally destroyed by fire. There were, it is said, some peculiar circumstances in connection with the affair, but the police hadnothe ing definite to act upon. Certain facts, however, came to the knowledge of Constable Moore,and be communicated them to headquarters. Yesterday, Sergeant - Major Pardy and Detective Strathearn proceeded to Biverhead, where they met Constable Moore. The result of the trip was the arrest of two men named Emrili Adams and Richard Polklngborne, who were brought down in the police boat this afternoon. The charge against tbem is of having been accessories after the fact to the burning ot the Wade Hotel.
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Auckland Star, Volume XII, Issue 3391, 13 June 1881, Page 2
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