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ALLEGED ARSON.

[BY TELEGRAPH.PRESS ASSOCIATION'.] Wellington*, Wednesday. Henry Smith, wharf labourer, was arrested yesterday on a charge of setting fire to an empty dwelling on Cambridge Terrace, next to one in which he was lodging. Evidence given at the Magistrate's Court was to the effect that accused had had unpleasantness with his landlady lately, and threatened to burn down her home, that he was seen to enter the empty house on Monday evening, that the fire broke out just afterwards, and that kerosene was found to have been sprinkled about. Accused was remanded till Friday.

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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11841, 19 December 1901, Page 5

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ALLEGED ARSON. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11841, 19 December 1901, Page 5

ALLEGED ARSON. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11841, 19 December 1901, Page 5

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