HUTS SET ON FIRE
BUSHMAN SENTENCED. By Telegraph—Pres® Association ROTORUA, October 20. In the Rotorua Magistrate's Court to-day Bernard McCauley, aged 27. a bushman. of Ngongotaha. was charged on three counts of committing mischief by setting fire to two hutments in the timber workers' camp at Mangarewr. Gorge, about 18 miles from Rotorua. Arising out of the same set of circumstances, a charge of counselling and procuring McCauley to commit a crime, was admitted by a married woman. Emily Brown, who. in a statement to the police, admitted that she had been friendly with one of the occupiers of the huts, Harold Manning, but that pique ; by the attentions which Manning was paying her younger sister, she suggested to McCauley that he burn down his hut. Manning's hut stood next to that occupied bv another bushman. Harold Keaney, and this also caught alight and was destroyed. The value of the huts and personal effects lost by the two men was more than £IOO. The Magistrate sentenced both accused to a term of two years’ reformative detention, remarking that the woman was worse than the rr le accused. who had pLainly been her tool.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19627, 23 October 1933, Page 12
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