LIONEL TERRY.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13709, 25 September 1908, Page 5

LIONEL TERRY.

SUSPECTED UF IXCKN DLARISXL

FIRE IX LYTJjELTON GAOL.

Per Press Association.

LVfTICLfOX, Sept. 24, At 9.35 ft.ni, so-day it. was discovered under the staircase* of. the I*yti u-hon Gaol hospital, <;lo.s*v to the door of i ilm* room ou im' gionmiv llow in which Lionel 'leiiy W,lonyeJ. SScma burning paper and a jbc<c«,< «»f mat. were found und*r" the Mali*: and tim warder > oitwauk in tlnv £ovvt-r noticed Miiokti arising l front the st a !K."iho flames wero ex-" fiiiguislud with a i>w bueke-H of watolv Ihe ittaircase was only slightly damaged. Had tin.* ihv not seen mwb the stairhave !) en, d» st toy«?d, but na tlu* *ukWundutg -walls* are .concrete, no , other d.irtt!i(>e would pinb.tbly huvo • re» .sulud. T< rry would m.ikt- jfcither nd». nikfciitu nor denial regarding the finv Ho h:ul access t«> th>> j>tairi3*o, :uj the door of hia room was open, as• was the'outer doot* tlusi- l>y hading to the hospital.' Thtf yard j> d by ;i high irott rading with iv yaM, which is kept locked. The damage done was not- very great, tlu« htairway wing badly charred ns vrm also i.vojne adjoining A few fluids f M ill crftwr ftmything. ;?The ginger't Mr Cleary) informed. a reporter that ho was'vtry strongly of tha opinion that the fire was : deliberately, started by Lionel Terry with t)»e objecb of cwating some ejceit<ment. Terry has been confined iq Lv Helton ;gaol for som& time. His quartern .a» ■ia< tha hospital wing, the door, of. his room opening ou to the .passage a few fe«t from tlh* xtairwny under which the fire started. That portion of the gaol occupied by Terry was Gnrette-l as an nxylnin and ha h«(i far mor<- .privilege* tlirmnivtnllowctlto tlw prisoners. -

Mr Cleitrv informed a r«portetf Uiaft Tet'ty tra* RasK'tml •»* an- asylnm and liesort- thai he had had it hsuul in starting the fir.-.

A ijtenuity of paper and portion of a mat partly hnitic-<i \>vro fwmd in tlu> re* rws tunhr thd >tuirvvav.