A TERRIBLE CRIME.
PRISON FOR 25 YEARS. A man who was well known as an art collector and connoisseur in Connecticut was recently convicted of arson in an American court, and sentenced to imprisonment for 25 years: The case was one of the very worst on record. After insuring his house and property for £15,000. he employed a painter ostensibly to carry out some decorations, stunned him while at work, and after forcing a chloroform gag into his mouth set fire to the building, which he had previously drenched with petroleum. The intention of the criminal was that the charred body of the painter should bo mistaken for his own, and that the insurance should be collected through an intermediary who was in the plot. Unfortunately for the incendiary, but fortunately for the painter, the latter had not been rendered entirely insensible; he was able to remove the chloroform gag from his mouth and staggered to the window in a half-dazed condition to give the alarm.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19986, 30 June 1928, Page 2 (Supplement)
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166A TERRIBLE CRIME. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19986, 30 June 1928, Page 2 (Supplement)
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