ALLEGED ARSON.
TAIHAPE,
November 16.
At the Police Court Robert Bunt, a wellknown axeman, was committed for trial on a charge of arson. The evidence showed that the accused' 6 watch and chain were found on a sledge, that a tin of kerosene was removed from the washhouse bearing blood-stains, and that there was a wound on tho back of accused's hand. A doctor said that this wound could not have been inflicted by a knife or a bottle. Accused said that he fell on a bottle.
The cold of Siberia is so great in winter that many kinds of provision?, which are with us either sealed up or ealted, are there kept by «imnlo freezing.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2801, 20 November 1907, Page 69
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116ALLEGED ARSON. Otago Witness, Issue 2801, 20 November 1907, Page 69
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