"SELFISH CRIME."
HOUSE SET ON FIRE.
FINE OF £500 IMPOSED.
« NEIGHBOURS EMDA>OEBED.»
(By Telegraph.—Preee Association.)
WANGANUI, Monday,
Strong s comment was made in the Supreme Court at Wanganni to-day by Mr. Justice Smith when Paul Nodwell, single, aged 57i appeared for sentence on a charge of arson. Prisoner, who had been found guilty of setting fire to his own house, was fined £500, the sum to be paid within two days or, in the alternative, the prisoner "to serve a sentence in gaol not exceeding two year*. His Honor said prisoner was guilty of a cold, calculated, selfish crime. He hoped to gain a perfectly new house, and had endangered the lives of his neighbours. Apparently a grasp for money had been his aim in life, and the Court proposed to make him feel the effect of his crime through his puree, and to show that arson was not a crime to be treated lightly.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 45, 23 February 1937, Page 13
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