"Fire Bug” at Work
YOUTH CAUGHT REDHANDED. Per Press Association. BLENHEIM, June 15. As the result of a sequence of fires on Saturday nights during the past few weeks, none of which assumed serious proportions, due to the efficiency of the fire brigade, the police on Saturday evening kept & watch on premises likely to be visited by a suspected fire bug. The outcome of this action was the arrest of a youth redhanded by a c nstable, who caught him attempting I, fire stables, which were the scene of an outbreak exactly a woek previously. The culprit was arrested and remanded.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 141, 17 June 1936, Page 9
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101"Fire Bug” at Work Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 141, 17 June 1936, Page 9
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