ATTEMPTED INCENDIARISM.
A deliberate attempt was made to burn down tbe offices of Messrs. Moorhouse, Edwards, and Cutto'n, solicitors," Featherstonstreet, lnst night. It appears that the office was shut up as usual at about 6 o'clock, everything then helng quite safe. At about 7 o'clock, Mr. Moorhouse, jun., returned to the officfe, and found a quantity of old briefs, &c, stored on a shelf in one of the rooms in a blaze. . Fortunately, with a jug of water close at hand he was enabled "Vef-y speedily to extinguish the flames. The shelf in question is close to a window looking out upon a passage leading to Mr. Dransfleld's yard. The window, which is never opened, was found on this occasion raised about a foot or eighteen inches, and several wax matches were found strewn about the rophV, and also in tho passage near tbe window. The papers destroyed were a quantity of old briefs, and were of no valuo. It is fortunate that tbe fire wat discovered so soon by Mr. Moorhouse, or tho consequences would probably have been very -serious. Tho police are investigating the affair.
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Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 515, 21 May 1879, Page 2
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187ATTEMPTED INCENDIARISM. Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 515, 21 May 1879, Page 2
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