A WOMAN'S WAY.
BLUNT EMPTY HOUSE. BECAUSE DID NOT LIKE NEvV TENANT. (Per Press Association.) • WELLINGTON, tins day. Charlotte Mather, the Maori wife* of a white man. pleaded guilty at the l iqiei I tut t to wilfully burning a house, valued at £235, the properly of the Crown Lands Department. - Evidence showed the house was unoccupied at the time, and the culprit would never have been found if she -Had not voluntarily confessed became she. believed someone else was under suspicion. Accused said a man who had neen annoying her was going to take the house, and she burnt it to prevent Ins coming.
She was committed to ttie Supreme Court for sentence*. Bail was allowed, £SO.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17008, 15 April 1926, Page 7
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118A WOMAN'S WAY. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17008, 15 April 1926, Page 7
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