SET SHOP AFIRE
Insurance Money Conspiracy THREE MEN SENTENCED By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, August 4. Prisoners were sentenced to-day in the Supreme Court as follow:— William Alexander MacKenzie, aged 26, and Thomas Mills Stewart, aged 23, arson, two years’ imprisonment. Stewart Walter Muir, aged 18, arson, three years’ probation. A shop at St. Kilda owned by MacKenzie was set fire to by Muir'at the instigation of others, with a view to collecting the insurance money. Muir was admitted to probation on account of his youth. Statements before sentence showed that MacKenzie and Stewart planned the Are to get the insurance money and enable them to go to Scotland and buy an hotel. Muir, who lit the match, was inveigled into the scheme by the older men.
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 266, 5 August 1932, Page 12
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126SET SHOP AFIRE Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 266, 5 August 1932, Page 12
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