Stack Burning.
The Oamarn correspondent of the Otago Daily Times telegraphs to that paper -.—Several fires of grain stacks which occurred lately were attended by circumstances that pointed so fairly to incendiarism as their cause that m one instance the New Zealand Insurance Company offered a reward of £100 for the detection of the fireraiser. The police inquiry led to something more than a strong suspicion that several of the stacks were wilfully- set on fire by a Prussian named Mullendorf, and he was traced by the police to Tokomairiro, and thenne to the Nuggets Lighthouse, where he was arrested. It was then found, that the man was a lunatic suffering from religious mania, with a strong desire to burn the earth, and a particularly strongly marked anti pathy to grain stacks and threshing machines. It was consequently deemed advisable to place him under restraint, and he was committed to the Dnnedin Lunatic Asylum. After his arrest Mullendorf admitted hay ing fired a grain stack near Oamaru.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 165, 10 June 1884, Page 3
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167Stack Burning. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 165, 10 June 1884, Page 3
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