INCENDIARISM ADMITTED
CHRISTCHURCH HOUSE SET AFIRE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. Herbert William Carey, aged 23, appeared in the Police Court to-day charged that on November 7 he set fire to a house at the corner of Bordesley Street and Ferry Road, the property of Josiah McClintock. The house had been unoccupied for some time, and after an outbreak of fire had been quelled there were traces of the fire having been started at three separate places in the building. McClintock, in giving evidence, said he knew accused through his (Carey's) brother-in-law, with whom he (McClintock) was not on friendly terms. When asked if he had any questions to put to witness, accused said that his brother-in-law told him to set fire to the house.
Constable Rowe produced a statement in which accused admitted the offence, alleging that his brother-in-law told him to set the house afire when he got the ehance. Other evidence was to the effect that accused was sub-normal mentally and unable to write. Carey pleaded guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 November 1927, Page 7
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180INCENDIARISM ADMITTED Taranaki Daily News, 16 November 1927, Page 7
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