PLEA OF GUILTY
CASE HEARING AT GREYMOUTH
MAN WHO FIRED TE KINGA HALL.
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GREYMOUTH, March 14
• Jack Cummings Williams, aged 23,: a labourer, pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court to wilfully setting fire to the Te Kinga Hall on the night of March'7‘ and was committed for sentence to the Supreme Court at Christchurch. . Evidence showed that the accused had had trouble with James Avery Dowell,! licensee, bf .the,, hotel and lessee of the hall; and had previously threatened to burn the hotel and hall.
At midnight on March 7, accused threw a bottle of kerosene at the hall and ignited it. The hall was damaged to the , extent of £l9 13s 6d. The estimated value of the hall was £250, and the building was insured for £2OO.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 March 1938, Page 6
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