FIRE AT A MANSION
MANUFACTURER SENT TO GAOL. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, July 14. (Received July 15, at 9.25 a.m.) Harry Smith was to three years’ imprisonment.—A. and N.Z. Cable. [Harry Smith, a worsted spinner of Leeds, and his wife were committed for trial at Edinburgh on a charge of attempting to defraud the Yorkshire Insurance Company. It was that tho accused, after buying Linden Park Mansion, at Hawick, insured the house and contents for £73,000; that they wilfully set it on fire in May, 1921, and claimed £50,000 .from the company.]
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Evening Star, Issue 18021, 15 July 1922, Page 4
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92FIRE AT A MANSION Evening Star, Issue 18021, 15 July 1922, Page 4
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