OAMARU FIRE INQUIRY.
SENSATIONAL EVIDENCE. ' (By TeJeertpti.—l'ress Association.) OAMAB.U. this day. A magisterial inquiry into circumstances attending the recent fire at the Star and Garter Hotel, was begun I to-day. I Sensational evidence was given by S. (TS. Clark, a commercial traveller, who I deposed that Miss Telfer. a boarder, said to him, on the afternoon before the fire: I ""Have you brought your luggage with )you. Mr. Clark?" He asked why, and ifiee Telfer replied, "If you have much \uggage with you to-night, have it ready for getting out." Pressed for her reason, Miss Telfer eventually said that the iStat and Gattet wae likely to be burned ) that night. Urs. Harvey had told her two months ago that they were losing , money, that tbe bouse wae Tiot paying, and the only thing was to burn it down and get the insurance money. The inquiry ie proceeding.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 66, 18 March 1915, Page 6
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