HOUSE SET ON FIRE.
ADMISSION BY A YOUNG SERVANT GIRL. LONDON. May 4. An admission by a fourteen-year-old domestic servant that she had set lire to a house because her employer had grumbled at her was repeated in Enfield Police Court yesterday. The girl, Helen Hammond, was remanded for medical inquiries on a charge of having' set fire to a house in Village Road. Captain Quinton, of the Enfield Fire Brigade, said the brigade arrived to find the dining-room in flames. The house was locked up, and two windows had to be broken to get in. Detective-Sergeant Sandies stated that the girl had made a statement to him in which she said: “I was told mv aunt had died in hospital. This upset me and made me feel very miserable. “My mistress went out on Saturdaymorning leaving me alone in the house, and I then thought that I would set light to the front joom because she had been jawing me. “So I got a pair of scissors and cut open a cushion on one of the easy chairs. With a pair of tongs I placed a piece of red-hot coal among the feathers and put another piece of coal under the chair on the carpet. “When the flames started T got i frightened, shut the door, and ran out of the house.”
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17571, 23 June 1925, Page 8
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