SUSPECTED ARSON.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8099, 30 September 1904, Page 3

SUSPECTED ARSON.

[MUMS ASSOCIATION.) DUNEDIN, September 29. Shortly after noon a fire broke out in -the bin room of Keast. and Powfcys bottling establishment in Hope street. This is the third outbreak in a month, the tost being this day f *J* «J^ it began on the opposite side of the buiMing, and ctompletely gutted it. Insurances total £3300. _ .

In connection with the fires art, Powley and Keast's bottling establishment, the police have arrested Thomas Bena* 0 " 1 Matthews, aged 20 years, employed by fiT firm. At flrsrhe* indignant * denied any knowledge of the fire, but ft » said he subsequently admitted throwing a lighted mtch in the straw, bub could not assign any reason for doing so. It M said theS haJe been *™»V °^f£» °J fire in tb» house occupied by Matthews parents. .