A CHARGE OF ARSON.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9652, 4 January 1910, Page 8

A CHARGE OF ARSON.

f-'ar Press Association. Christchurch. January B.

Ten minutes after midnight on New Year’s Day Constable Wilson of Lin wood received word that Mrs Emily Ogier, residing in Inglis street, wanted him as her husband was drank and setting the house on fire. On the constable’s arrival he found the house in flames. The brigade was called out and did its best but the house and contents were totally destroyed. The house belonged lo J. S. Barratt. It had five rooms and was valued at £3OO. It was insured in she Victoria office for £l5O, The constable arrested Ogier on a charge of drunkenness. Prisoner said he put kerosene on the kitchen fire but it was not intentional incendiarism.

Mrs Ogle'*' says she saw her husband standing near the window of the bedroom with a lighted candle in his hand. The curtains were burning, and her husband sain "Let them go for the New Year.” A detective arrested Ogier this morning on a charge of arson. Ogier admitted .firing the house bat not intentionally.