INSPIRED BY JEALOUSY
MAORI WOMAN SET FIRE TO HOTEL " GUILTY OF AN APPALLING CRIME u SENTENCED TO SEVEN YEARS’ IMPRISONMENT [Peb United Press Association.] GISBORNE, August 17. “ You are guilty, of an appalling crime. Inspired by jealousy you sought to injure another woman, and you carried out your fiendish work with diabolical deliberation,” declared Mr Justice Quilliam, when- sentencing Rebecca Haerewa, a Maori woman, to seven years’ hard labour for arson. The prisoner had pleaded guilty to setting fire to the Waipiro Bay Hotel, and the, judge, . referring to the deliberate character of the crime, said she had watched the building to make sure that her intended victim was indoors. Then she waited a further space of time to allow-her to retire to bed, subsequently saturating portion of the building with kerosene and setting it on fire. “ But for the fortunate circumstance that the fire was discovered in time the woman would have perished and five other', innocent people would have been endangered, and you would have been facing a charge involving the supreme penalty,” added the judge.
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Evening Star, Issue 23038, 17 August 1938, Page 10
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178INSPIRED BY JEALOUSY Evening Star, Issue 23038, 17 August 1938, Page 10
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