FIRE RAISING WEAR RIVERSDALF.
A MAN ARRESTED. GORE, July 28. Bather an extraordinary occurrence is reported from Rirexsdale- This morning ,-• number of fires were, observed over the plain. A. settler making an. investigation saw a man deliberate!* setting fixe to several straw stacks. The settler obtained assistance, but in the meantime the man had reached the next farm and set fire to three oat-sheaf stacks, also several straw stacks. The two victims met and secured him. In all he burned 15 stacks, valued at over £460. The man was brought to Gore to-night for medical examination, seemingly being ineane. * He arrived in the district several days ago. He is about 50 years of age, and gives his name as George Murray. He states that he has a wife and three children in Dunedin. July 29.George Munro (not Murray, as telegraphed), charged with burning 15 stacks yesterday, was brought before the justices this morning, and remanded till Friday.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2785, 31 July 1907, Page 36
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