SEVEN YEARS’ SENTENCE
SEQUEL TO BURNING OF HOTEL
[Per Press Association. —CovyrightJ PALMERSTON N., This Day. For his connection with the burning down of the Makotutu Hotel on May 8, 1933, Douglas Henry Colin Baker, a brewer, aged 50, was sentenced yesterday to . seven , years’ imprisonment, With > hard labour. “I can’t see a single redeeming feature in the case,” stated Mr Justice Blair in passing sentence. “There might have been guests in the hotel at the time, and you were prepared, for purely selfish purposes, to endanger human lives.”
There were two charges against Baker, namely, of conspiring with Edwin Walter Barringer to commit arson, and of counselling and procuring Barringer to commit the offence, thereby becoming a party to and guilty of it. For his part in the episode Barringer has already been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment.
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Northern Advocate, 7 February 1936, Page 6
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