CAMBRIDGE SENSATION
FIRE IN CHURCH
INCENDIARISM INDICAT
DISCOVERED JUST IN TIME.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
CAMBRIDGE, Wednesday.
Yesterday afternoon a deliberate attempt was made to set fire to Trinity Presbyterian Church. About 3.30 the caretaker went to the church, and saw smoke Issuing from a side window.
A side door which was usually open, was barricaded. The caretaker burst the door in, and found a pile of paper on top of the doormat afire. A large hole had beon burnt In the floor olose along'* side the organ. Had It not been observed at the time a serious fire must have oocurred.
All the evidence suggests that It was a deliberate attempt on the part of some adult person.
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Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17711, 15 May 1929, Page 7
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