FALSE ALARMS AT WELLINGTON
WELLINGTON, Sunday. For several years past the Wellington Fire Brigade has been frequently summoned By false alarms of fire from the vicinity of Hankey and Hopperstreets. Three such alarms were indulged in last night. On the occasion of the last one, about a quarter to twelve, a Miss Harris, living in the neighbourhood, saw a man in the act of giving the alarm. He broke the glass of the alarm box with a pocket knife. She rushed out and seized him by the coatcollar, but the man escaped from Miss Harris, though not before he had cut one of her hands with the pocket knife. The man went into his house in South Avenue, off Hopper-street. The police and the Fire Brigade had then arrived, and the man was arrested. He is a married man, named John Evans, a dustman in the employ of the Corporation.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, 7 June 1909, Page 2
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150FALSE ALARMS AT WELLINGTON Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, 7 June 1909, Page 2
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