GUILTY OF ARSON
WOMAN'S PROMPT ACTION
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, This Day. At the Supreme Court Joseph Henry Trask was found guilty of setting fire to a sack soaked with kerosene in the proximity to a building. He was admitted to two years' probation on condition that he takes out a prohibition order for . that period. Mr. Justice Stringer said that the action appeared to have bgen the act of drunken folly and not one of preconceived intent. Yet an act of this kind was a menace to the community. But for the prompt action of a young woman, lives might have been risked. Her services should be recognised by the insurance company affected, or by the owners of tha places.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 33, 9 February 1927, Page 9
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121GUILTY OF ARSON Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 33, 9 February 1927, Page 9
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