SEQUEL TO A FIRE.
fPer Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, January 28. A peculiar case 'was before the Court to-day^ In May last a house, >was dcsby fire, and the occupier, Jas. Philhpson, recovered the insurance on the goods returned as burnt. ■ It was recently discovered that some of the property had not been destroyed, and Phillipson was charged with the theft of n violin and with obtaining £20 from the New Zealand Insurance Company by fraud and sentenced to three months. The (Magistrate remarked that it was a most serious 'matte**, and probably this class of offence was rather common though difficult to detect.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12857, 29 January 1913, Page 5
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103SEQUEL TO A FIRE. Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12857, 29 January 1913, Page 5
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