Wilfully Setting Fire to Hal!
LABOURER PLEADS GUILTY Per Press Association GREYMOUTH, Last Night. Jack Cummings Williams, aged 23, a labourer, pleaded guilty at the Alagistrate’s Court to-day to wilfully setting fire to the Tekinga Hall on the night of March 7. He was committed for trial to the Supreme Court at Christchurch.
The evidence showed that accused had had trouble with James Avery Dowell, the licensee of the hotel, and the lessee of the hall, and had previously threatened to burn the hotel and the hall.
At midnight, on March 7, accused threw a bottle of kerosene at the -all and ignited it. The hall was damaged to the extent of £lB 13s Gd. The estimated value of the hall was £250 and it was insured for £2OO.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 62, 15 March 1938, Page 8
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