SUSPECTED INCENDIARISM.
(Per United Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, December 18.
Henry Smith, wharf labourer, was arrested yesterday on a charge of set ting fire to an empty 'dwelling on Cambridge Terrace,- next to the one in which he 'was lodging. The evidence at "the Magistrate's Court Was to the effect that accused- had had unpleasantness with his landlady, and lately threatened to burn down her home; that he was seen to enter the empty house on Monday evening;* that the fire broke out just afterwards, 'and that kerosene was found to have been sprinkled about. Accused was romande3 till Friday.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10521, 18 December 1901, Page 2
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99SUSPECTED INCENDIARISM. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10521, 18 December 1901, Page 2
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