FIRE INQUIRY.
- ■ Per Press Association. ■ DUNEDIN, November 29. ' A .■ Magistral Jnqu'iry was ii^id. to-day touch'.iip- the.-fiiTe^at the- residence M Mrs. Hugh McNeil, on llie 16th. Tne ■evidienco;..showed' 'that Mrs. McNeil r&tirod abiout 9, socurinig the front door hefiiaei-f. Two ©si-vanit girls refai-red later. Margaret Sinipsoii half an 'hour later heaird Mary Devin-e oallLng her and telling her the house was on fire. On going downstairs tlie dining-room wad found •on firo in two Eopai'a'lts plaoes, and . a littiio later it,. was observed that the front door, was open. The fires were puts out with, 'the .■assistance 'of neighbours. About £200 damage was dono. Mary Deviine dedlared tiha'j as she was going downstairs the- saw.'a,, man passing tho dioAvnstaiva .window, coming from the direction- of tbo dimLrig-'room. * Sh© thought it; was a main she had seen a few nights before going out'of tlie gate: The jury returned a verdict ittiat the house was maliciously set on fire by gome person or persons umknown.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLVIII, Issue 12363, 1 December 1904, Page 5
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162FIRE INQUIRY. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLVIII, Issue 12363, 1 December 1904, Page 5
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