ALLEGED ARSON IN WELLINGTON.
(PRESS ASSOCIATION" TELEGKAiI.) WELLINGTON, December 18. Henry Smith, a wharf labourer, was arrested yesterday on a charge of setting fire to an empty dwelling on Cambridge Terrace, next to the one in -which 'he iv;is lodging. The evidence at the Magistrate's Court was to the effect that accused bad had unpleasantness with his landlady, and had lately threatened to burn down "her house; that* he was seen to enter the empty house an Monday evening; that a fire broke out just afterwards: and that kerosene was found to have been sprinkled about. Accused was reminded till Friday.
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 11152, 19 December 1901, Page 6
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