CHARGE OF ARSON.
MAORI WOMAN PLEADS GUILTY. v (miss luocuTiov ntsnuL) * WELLINGTON, April M. Charlotte Mather, the Maori wife of a white man, pleaded guilty at Upper Hutt to wilfully burning a hooae nhtd at £285, the property of the Grown Lands Department. The evidence showed that the hom* waa oeenpied at the time, and that the culprit would never have been fond if she had not voluntarily uunPuiill because she believed someone else was under suspicion. Accused said that a man who h&4 been annoying her was going to take the house and she burnt it to pietemt his coming. The woman was committed to the Supreme Court lor sentence.
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18667, 16 April 1926, Page 9
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