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AUCKLAND SENSATION Former Police Constables on Trial [ Per Press Association ] AUCKLAND, Nov. 1. The trial of two former police constables, Thomas Francis Carroll, aged 29, and Sydney Francis Waters, aged 33, and a taxi-driver, James Tait, aged 33, on charges of arson and conspiracy to defraud, commenced in the Supreme Court this afternoon. The charges arose out of a sensational ex".osion and fire in Carroll’s shop a; 62 Napier Street, Ponsonby, early »n the morning of August 29. Each cf the three was charged with wilfully sctTii.g fire to the promises and with conspiring to defraud the British Traders’ Insurance Co., Ltd., of £394. Carroll was further indicted with having made a declaration amounting to forgery, in declaring his loss by fire before a Justice of the Peace. Evidence was given by James Irwin, a trustee of th j estate owning the shop, and by an insurance adjuster, and the court then adjourned until tomorrow.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 260, 2 November 1928, Page 7
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