SERVANT AND EIRE

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7914, 25 September 1911, Page 8

SERVANT AND EIRE

GIRL'S ALLEGED REVENGE FOR NO BANK HOLIDAY. At Bristol recently a domestic servant • named Mary Chiloott, aged twenty-live. Was charged with wilfully sotting fire to a house in Greville road, Southville. thereby imperilling the lives of her employer, Hr Frederick Jennings, and of his wife, and of their son. Mr Jennings said that prisoner had been in his employ for about six months. He heard footsteps about the house early that morning, but, thinking it was his son moving about, ho took no notice. Noticing smoko, however, he jumped out of bed and found that the mat and carpet outside wore blazing, and that in the doorway of his som’s room there was a heap of paper burning. Tho things had been saturated with paraffin. He saw prisoner halfway up the stairway going bo her room in her nightdress, and accused her of setting tho place on fire. She eaad. “If you do not send for the police 1 will tell you tho truth. I did it." In the hall he found her boxes fully packed. Close beside them was a paraffin oil can. In the cells prisoner is stated to have said that she had done it because her mistress would not give her her Bank Holiday. Chiloott, who had nothing to say, was remanded.