ARSON CHARGES
YOUTH PLEADS GUILTY By Telegraph—Press Association BLENHEIM, July 8. No reason was offered by John William Hansen, aged 18, for having set fire to an unoccupied dwelling, and on two occasions to a stable, on successive Saturday nights in May and June, when he pleaded guilty to three charges of arson in the Magistrate’s Court. According to his statement to the police he did not even watch the result, but calmly went on home after yielding to a sudden, strange impulse to commit the crime. Hansen was committed to the Supreme Court here next week for sentence on the three charges he admitted. The Magistrate dismissed a fourth charge of attempted arson on accused pleading not guilty, although in a statement to the police he admitted going to the stable on a third occasion to set it on fire, bpt found that he had no matches. It was then he was apprehended by a constable who had been placed on watch in consequence of the significant fact that the preceding fires had all occurred at the identical hour at previous week-ends.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20465, 9 July 1936, Page 10
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183ARSON CHARGES Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20465, 9 July 1936, Page 10
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