MALICIOUSLY SET ON FIRE.
'.-'/: [BT ; TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION J ■ Draapis, Tuesday. A MAOiaTßßiAli'. icqwy-:- was - : j ! held 'to-day touching the fire at the residence of Mrs Hugh XkNdl, on \h« 16tb inst. The evi dance showed that Mrs. McNeil retired abou nine o'clock, petering the front door bof»H Two servant girls retired i later. . Margate Simpson,; hall m hour later, heard # . Mar; "J&eViiie calling her and . tejlin* her that (in house was on £■», ; ' Or- going downstairs, ',iu dining-3'Oom ■ w,'■ ■- &>., m '■■ (° be Q .Ue ''* twi separate places, a/- . a little later t was oh served that the front door was open. . Th fires were, put cut, with the assistance of th« neighbours. V About x.200 damage was done Mar/ Pevine declared |bf*, as she was go ing :'downstairs,:; she saw a ji?.i passing th< downstairs window, oomir • f~~ V the direc t.oh of the c- .nought it ?a a man she had wen a few nights befor going out pf the gats. ■ The jury returned i verdict that the house wosi maliciously sa on fire by ' some person .o; ' peraon but by ; whom, there : was no* suffipiaot ex'. dfi-uca to show. '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12725, 30 November 1904, Page 5
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