FINE OF £SOO
HOUSE SET ON EIRE Wanganui, Feb. 22. Strong comment was made in the Supreme Court at Wanganui to-day by Mr Justice Smith when Paul Nodwell, single, aged 57, appeared for sentence on a charge of arson. Prisoner, who had been found guilty of setting tire to his own house, was lined £SOO, the sum to be paid within two days or. - ! n -he alternative, the prisoner to serve a sentence in gaol not exceeding two years. 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 purre, and show that arson was not a crime to be treated lightly.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXV, Issue 12258, 23 February 1937, Page 3
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