IMPRISONMENT FOR ARSON
MAN HIMSELF SEVERELY BURNED. JURY RECOMMENDS MERCY. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Invercargill, Aug. 20. In the Supreme Court, Max Bulling, aged 71, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for arson. About midnight accused set fire to a small store which had been liberally sprinkled with petrol and in the explosive blaze his clothes were almost burned off him. Accused’s counsel said that accused’s ears were almost burned off and the flesh on his neck so badly scorched that it had to be cut away. He had been in bed two and a-half months and was still suffering from tho effects. Mr. Justice Kennedy in giving effect to the jury’s recommendation to mercy said it was obvious that accused had been very severely punished by the pain and suffering endured.
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 August 1930, Page 8
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