THE COURTS.
■§,dsns sißfpus charges.
(Per United Press Association.) INVEBCABGILL, June IS. At. the Police Court, William Bhind ' . Gregor Hay, a married man, aged 43, was charged with burning down his dwelling at Orepuki, and with attempting to defraud the New Zealand Insurance Company of £75 by a false de- ; clara tipn. _.„-.. » His wife, Grace, was similarly charged. < , , - Jfhe male accused was also charged with having on Christmas night, 1894, broken and entered ■ the Mataura Post Office, and stolen therefrom ran iron safe containing .£3O in bank Titles, £27 in stamps r miners' rights .valued at JB7O, postal notes, and other documents. The safe, was found two year* later in a water-race running -into the Mataura Hirer. . The accused, at the time of the robbery, was working ..at, the Mataura' Freezing Works., ije .was remanded for eight days, bail being refused.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10366, 15 June 1901, Page 1
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141THE COURTS. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10366, 15 June 1901, Page 1
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