BOY FIRES OFFICE

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 August 1935, Page 4

BOY FIRES OFFICE

INFLUENCE OF A NOVEL. LIVERPOOL. July 5. A itbyear-old boy. influenced by a character in a novel, stole money from the Liverpool warehouse where he v ;ts employed, and then set fire to the olllce. W lieu tile boy appeared at Liverpool juvenile court- today, m-cused ot maliciom-ly setting tire to two office desk-, books and papers at a tyre wmehinmo in Mount Pleasant, Liver pool, and breaking into the ware-hoii-o and stealing Ed l-‘> •• l>*’ told ’ln. magistrates he wanted to get his revenge on a clerk in the office who disliked him. Inspector J Beattie said th'- boy poured paradin over two desks, and by lighting papers started four different lii'-s ill the office. At the time llu-i" wa- C’i.unn woith of tyres on the premise'. tn a statement the ho) had confessed that he broke into the warehouse and -' t tire to the office atlei reading a book about an incendiary who never got < aught It was stated that after the boy had left the warehouse fie gave .mother lad t w op<-m e to Ime up the fife hr!.u I • Ilv Ih'V W.ir* <HI iiblit h‘l), .md ( ~d( led to pay t’s compensation