Five Years for Arson.

Mt Benger Mail, 16 September 1931, Page 3

Five Years for Arson.

.1 EDGE'S GO MM ENT OX FREQUENCY or GIMME. Auckland, September IE Charles Vernon, aged a 5, a tailor, who admitted setting lire to a block o flats owned by him mo sentenced by Mr Justice llerdmun today to Jive years’ reformative detention, “ People appear to be under the belief thtil it is not a set ous matter I (l defraud an insurance company,” said the judge. “I have no doubt Die crime of arson is frequently commit ted, and in nine ease out of ten the ot fender escapes. In this ease, if thi lire had taken a proper hold, possibly lives would have been lost. The excuse that the prisoner was in linnncial dil Jiculties was no excuse,”