A SERIOUS CHARGE OF ARSON.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 948, 1 May 1879, Page 2

A SERIOUS CHARGE OF ARSON.

T\vKK- AiiMi.T., April "0 Patrick M'Menamin, who iv.-t-s committed fur trial bv the Coroner's jury ell a charge of incendiarism, in setting fire to a stable at Makrewa. and causing the death of the entire horse Young Loftie. was examined by the R.M. to-day in the gaol.' Mr. T. M'Donald conducted the prosecution. Inspector Fox assisting. A number of witnesses, who had given evidence at the inquest, were examined, but nothing fresh crime to light, till one James Lyons, who had been in the service of the

o;' .iliei - M'.Monaiiiin, was examined, lie stated {'hat his tent »a> clew to the one in which the iiroTher lived, and that on a certain lie overheard them ei nC'vr a plan for littrnini, the stables ami dest;-..y-

ii:;.' tile lioiv -. .1-nnes M - .M'.-inmin told his brother iiiai if he would lav brush on the .stable, he (James) would d • the

! rest of the business. <in the night of j »l;e 'j-jnd, a few days after, Lyons heard dame.-, :; v. up ami leave the ten'. land iio f tile wed him To the .-:;ii.{o, lieari;, | three miles away, and saw him set !;re »" lit. and knock the horses down with a ri'ow bar. .Mr. .M'lionald here said he siu-uld withdraw tin' information :i"ai ii st l'.;t A!' M .-iiamiu. and, i.-iy aiioiher a::.d;isr the broilers c-'li jointly. This was done, ami a warrant was issued against dames .M' .Meiiamin. He was arrested, and admitted, to bail, himself in two sureties of I J I (><: ,':.-> cii. 1 Tile c.i-e i:i lo be gone into .-it Ab'tiday ! next, at tile Resident jViagisr.rato s Court.