DESTRUCTION OF A HOUSE.
BURNED BY MAORI WOMAN
Lby teleghafh.—rnsss association.] WELLINGTON, Tliursdny.
Charlotte Mather, the, Maori wife of a white man, pleaded guilty at Upper Hutt to wilfully burning a house valued at £285, the property of the Crown Lands Department. ' /
Evidence showed that the house wss unoccupied at the time, and that the culprit would never have, been found if she had not voluntarily confessed because she believed somebody else was under suspicion. Accused said that a man who had been annoying her was going to take the bouse, and she buJned it to prevent his. coming. She was committed to the Supremo Court for sentence/in bail ,of £SO.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19303, 16 April 1926, Page 14
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