SHOP SET ON FIRE.
SCHEME TO GET MONEY. TWO YOUNG MEN GAOX-ED. ACCOMPLICE ON PROBATION. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. Two young men, William Alexander Mackenzie, 20, and Thomas Mills Stewart, 23, were sentenced to-day to two years' imprisonment for arson. Stewart Walter Muir, a youth, aged 18, for the same offence, was admitted to three years' probation.
A shop at St. Hilda, owned by Mackenzie, wad set on fire by Muir at the instigation of tlio others, with a view to collecting, the insurance money. Muir was admitted to probation on account of his youth.
Statements made before the sentences were pronounced showed that Mackenzie and Stewart planned the fire to get the insurance money, which would enable them to go to Scotland to buy a hotel. Muir, who lit the match, was inveigled into the scheme by the older men.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 183, 4 August 1932, Page 8
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