IMPRISONMENT FOR SEVEN YEARS
CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT AESOtf
(JBISS iSSOCUTIOM 't>LM*AM.) PALMERSTON N., February 6. On charges arising out of the burnfag down of the Makotuku Hotel on May 8, 1933, Douglas Henry Colin Baker, a brewer, aged 50, was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment *ith hard 1 labour. "I can't see a single redeeming feature in the case," said his Honour Mr Justice Blair. "There might been guests in the hotel at the Jjffle you prepared, for purely selfish PWposes, to endanger human life." There were two charges against "axer—conspiring with Edwin Walter Jwringer to commit arson, and second, counselling and procuring Bar™*ger to commit the offence, thereby looming party to and guilty of i|. *°r ms part in the episode Barringer ?as already been sentenced to five /ears imprisonment.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21701, 7 February 1936, Page 7
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