EFFORT TO BURN BUILDING
WOMAN’S SUSPICIONS AROUSED. MEN’S. CAREFUL PREPARATIONS. By Telegraph—Press Assn— Copyright. .’ . Sydney, Aug. 25. Plans for a determined eflort to burn a block of buildings in Bathurst Street were frustrated by the suspicions of a woman in a ground floor. She noticed two men leaving, the upstairs premises, from which ,she knew that the occupants were absent. She informed the police, who discovered that the rooms had been soaked with petrol, the electric wiring had been interfered with, and a string led down to the street door ready for a pull to cause the fusing, of the wires and to ignite the petrol fumes. The premises are now guarded.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 August 1930, Page 14
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