INCENDIARISM & MURDER
WOMAN'S WILD STATEMENTS
•V CABLH—PBESS A.BSOCI IMON—COPYRI3HT. J BRISBANE, Jan. 28. Mrs . N lghtingale (not Martindale), who was reported to have confessed to setting fire to the Salvation Army Home at Tarenga, was charged with the murder of the three victims of the fire and remanded.
She protested her innocence, and called the arrestr.^ ■ constable a liar for saying she told him (something. She declared she had escaped,"from the fire by; sliding down a rail. She declaimed against the Salvation Army; and said she would rather do six months in prison th^n in the Army Home, which was worse than prison. If they would get half a dozen rat traps and kill some rats they would be doing some good.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 29 January 1914, Page 5
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122INCENDIARISM & MURDER Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 29 January 1914, Page 5
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