ATTEMPT TO FIRE HOUSE
LABOURER PLEADS GUILTY [ Per Press Association. | GISBORNE, Feb. 20. Pleading guilty to a charge of wilfully setting • fire to waste paper co situated that he knew a washhouse would catch fire, Reginald Fairlie Rogers, aged 35, labourer, was to-day committed to the Supreme Court at Wellington for sentence. The evidence disclosed that accused was separated from his wife and suspected her of relations with another man. He had admitted starting the fire in the hope that his wife would be compelled to leave the house and return to her mother.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 44, 21 February 1936, Page 6
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94ATTEMPT TO FIRE HOUSE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 44, 21 February 1936, Page 6
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