PUNISHMENT FOR ARSON
TWO MEN IMPRISONED YOUTH ADMITTED TO PROBATION [by telegraph—press association] DUNEDIN, Thursday Two young men, William Alexander Mackenzie, aged 26, and Thomas Mills Stewart, aged 23, were sentenced to-day to two years' imprisonment for arson. Stotvart Walter Muir, a youth aged 18, for the same offcnco was admitted to three years' probation. A shop at St. Kilda, owned by Mackenzie, was set on fire by Muir at the instigation of the others, with a View to collecting the insurance. Muir was admitted to probation on account of his youth. Statements made before the sentences wero pronounced showed that Mackenzie and Stewart planned the fire to get the insurance, which would enable them to go to Scotland to buy a hotel. Muir who lit the match, was inveigled into the scheme by the older men.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21253, 5 August 1932, Page 14
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