BURNED DOWN HOUSE TO GET MONEY THERE.
(Special to the “ Star.”) AUCKLAND, February 23. A man who had been a lay reader, Cecil Valois Lee, was sentenced by Mr Justice Herdman in the Supreme Court to-day to reformative detention for a period not exceeding three years for arson. His Honor referred to the offence as a grave crime. Although the prisoner had been a lay reader, that did not seem to have done him much good. He had also previously admitted stealing £2O, the property of the Boy Scouts’ organisation, while associated with the movement in Christchurch. In the present’case, he burned down a house to get some money left there by the owner.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 46, 24 February 1931, Page 5
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