SEQUEL TO FIRE
Taxi-driver Arrested
By Telegraph—Press Association.
Auckland, April 18. On a charge of wilfully setting fire to clothing, which he knew was likely to cause a building to catch fire, John Lewis Gunning, aged 42, a taxi driver, was committed for trial. . Evidence was given by another taxi driver that the accused told him that he wanted a car to do a job, which was setting fire to a shop. The job was supposed to look like burglary. The owner of the shop testified that he was out of the city when the fire occurred. The insurance on the stock was £lOUy, and on the fittings £3OO. The stock in the shop at the time of the fire was worth £llOO. . , t The accused reserved his defence.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 174, 20 April 1931, Page 10
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