GUILTY OF ARSON.
ADMISSION BY TAILOR. FIVE YEARS’ DETENTION. CRIME FREQUENTLY 'COMMITTED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) / Auckland, Monday. ■Charles Verron, aged 55 years, tailor, who admitted setting Are to a block of flats owned by him, was sentenced by Mr Justice Herdman to-day to flvo years’ reformative detention. “People appear to be under the belief that it is not a serious matter to defraud an insurance company, said His Honour. “I have no doubt that the crime of arson is frequently committed, and in nine cases out of ten the offender escapes. In this case n the fire had; taken a proper hold possibly lives yrould have been lost. The excuse that prisoner was in financial difficulties was no excuse.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18433, 14 September 1931, Page 7
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