BOTH PENNILESS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12431, 25 August 1933, Page 5

BOTH PENNILESS.

A FIRE-RAISING COUPLE.

WILL QUIT THE COUNTRY. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copvr i ght. LONDON, August 24. Capsoni and his wife, who were concerned in the fire conspiracy case, called at the Daily Express office and said they were penniless, since the £5 a week paid by the prosecution ceased with the end of the trial. They intend to quit the country as soon as possible. Yla\s Capsoni said she was born in England and served in France as a V.A.D. in wartime. 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 returned to England, where she met Capsoni, whom she had known in Italy. She admitted that she 'had lit the 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 and broke away, going to an insurance company and telling everything. Capsoni said he served in the war and was wounded. There Avas nothing against him until he became involved in fire-raising.