INCENDIARISM

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 81, 7 April 1931, Page 10

INCENDIARISM

BRIGADE'S DISCOVERY

LIBERAL USE OF KEROSENE

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

CHRISTCHUBCH, 6th April.

When fire brigadesmen entered a house on Norfolk street this evening, to which they had been called to quell an outbreak of fire, they found unmistakeable evidence that the house had been deliberately set on fire.

The alarm was first given by a boy, who called at the house on an errand. When the firemen arrived they found ■the fire had started in every room in the house. Beds had been saturated with kerosene, which was also spilled on the floor. In the sitting-rooni a mat and an armchair had been soaked. Both were burning. Clothes hanging on pegs in the hall were soaked and burning. The timely arrival of the brigade prevented the destruction of the house. Not much damage was done. The house was occupied by Eoberfc Thompson Nirrie, and owned by Mrs. E. J. Phillips, of Christchurch. The houso was insured, but the furniture was not covered by a policy of insurance. Nobody was at home when the outbreak occurred.