FIRE CONSPIRACY CASE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22041, 25 August 1933, Page 9

FIRE CONSPIRACY CASE

INFORMERS PENNILESS QUITTING THE COUNTRY. LONDON, August 24. (Received August 24, at 11 p.m.) Capsoni and his wife, who were concerned in the fire conspiracy case, called at the Daily Express office and said that they were penniless, since the five pounds a week paid by the prosecution ceased with the end of the trial. They intend to quit the country as soon as possible. Mrs Capsoni said she was born in England and served in France as a V.A.D. during the war. She married a Canadian soldier, who went back to the front line and was killed, so she was a war widow at 24. She lived in Italy for 18 months, and then returned to England, where she met Capsoni, whom she had known in Italy. She admitted she lit a fire in Oxford street, but had not realised what a terrible thing it was. Her husband received £IOOO as a result of one fire, but they were never able to live luxuriously. They could not endure the suspense, so broke away and went to the insurance company and told everything. Capsoni said he served in the war and was wounded. There was nothing against him until he became involved in fire-raising.