INCENDIARISM CHARGE

Evening Post, Issue 36, 12 February 1935, Page 11

INCENDIARISM CHARGE

constables: discovery

FIRES IN iSEVJERAL ROOMS

(By Telegraph-I-Press Association.) *..:.,, ;r - r : r ,BLENHEIM, This Day. #h!He lying in his bed "itt: Havelocki Constable Hardyhearii noises in a shop connected with a house; on the opposite side of the street, and knowing that the householder, Miss S. L. Elliott, was away, he investigated.: ' ' : ; , On peering through a glass panel in a dopr. the constable saw a man with .heaps of, straw .busily. engaged in I setting. the^^pJacl^gsiXfire; Slipping round to. the',rear of the premises, he collared. the. manl as. he] ran' >from the | building, and after securing himdoused j the fire with buckets of-water and summoned the brigade, which saved the building,, v. though considerable damage was, done. '. - It is 'stated'that fires'- had been started in several, rooms.. '' ■ : As, a sequel William' Edward Slattery Corliss. ,ap|j^ar6a i..ih.,"'the-.- Blenheim Police Court "this^morning;."and ' was charged.. \*itSj.'wilfully getting; the premises' on"1 fire. ' He' was 'remanded until February; 20: • • ;Corliss, who is an Australian, rented a-detached room at the rear of Miss Elliott's.premises.... •■■:.•■-.■ •-A"i.■