ALLEGED ATTEMPTED ARSON.
A MAN All RESTED. Electric Telegraph Press Association. Reel ton, May 3. What appears like a grave attemiit. at arson was perpetrated yesterday at. the Gladstone' Hotel. A bundle of clothing belonging to some workmen who are boarders at the hotel was taken Irotn the changing iroom, placed on the landing of the outside stairway, and fired. Fortunately a hoarder returning from an i nteirtainment at a distant township came in nhout 4 o'clock, noticed the lire, and extinguished it. Hail the fire got a bold ill tin- passage it would have cut off all escape and ninny lives would have been endangered. A man giving the name of W. Ma.loon has been arrested iin connection with the affair, lor which no tangible reason can even be guessed at.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 3312, 4 May 1909, Page 5
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132ALLEGED ATTEMPTED ARSON. Pahiatua Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 3312, 4 May 1909, Page 5
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