HOW FIRES START.
A DANGEROUS VAGRANT.
A man named John George Stuart was sentenced to three months' imprisonment at the Police Court this morning by Mr li. Cameron, J.P., on the charge of not having any lawful visible means of support. The prisoner pleaded guilty to the charge, and did i>6t offer any explanation of his conduct. Sergeant Gamble said the man would nob work, and for the last seven or eight months he had boon wandering aboub Kingsland and Mount Albert, begging for a living, and sleeping in sheds. He had apparently a penchant for fires, or, at least, tires occurred in the places where he had been sleeping. On Friday and Saturday night the man slept in a shed at Kingaland. Immediately after he was seen to leave it next morning the shed was discovered on fire, and it was burned to the ground. When arrested subsequently the man said, "I slept in a shed at Kingsland on Saturday night, and next morning when I woke it was near daylight. I struck a match to look round and threw it away while alight upon some sacks. I do not know whether it went out. I left the shed as I was afraid the owner might find me. I looked back several times to see whether it was on fire. I saw smoke comine out of the shed and went back and found ib was on fire." Sergeant Gamble said he would ask His Worship to consider those facts in sentencing the prisoner.
His Worship sentenced the prisoner to three monbhe' hard labour.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 43, 19 February 1894, Page 2
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