"FIRE BUG" SUSPECT
SERIES OF OUTBREAKS. POLICE ARREST YOUTH. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) BLENHEIM, this day. As a result of a sequence of fires on Saturday nights, during the past lew weeks, none of which has assumed serious proportions, thanks to Use efliciency of the local brigade, the police on Saturday evening kept watch on certain premises likely to be visitecl by a suspected "lire bug." The outcome was the arrest of a youth who was caught redhanded by a constable in the act of setting fire to stables which were the scene of an outbreak exactly a week previously. The youth has been remanded.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 140, 15 June 1936, Page 9
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