CAUGHT IN THE ACT.
ATTEMPTED INCENDIARISM
ACCUSED COMMITTED FOR
SENTENCE
(Peb United Press Association.) PALMERy'I'ON X., December 20. At the Magistrate's Court to-dav Henry Ball, a cook out of work, pleaded guilty and was committed to the ■supreme Court for sentence on a charge nf wilfully setting fire to a dwelling. In a statement to the police the ael'iised said his intention had been to frighten the occupier, against whom he had an imaginary grudge. He was caught in the act by a passing constable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20906, 21 December 1929, Page 25
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