ARSON ADMITTED
FINE OF £SOO IMPOSED. BET FIRE TO OWN HOUSE. **»#**» O 4T.CULATED, SELFISH CRIME." (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WANGANUI, Monday. Strong: comment was made in the Supreme Court at Wanganui to-day by Mr Justice Smith when Paul Nodwell, single, aged 57, appeared for sentence on a charge of arson. Prisoner, who had been found guilty of setting fire to his own house, was fined £SOO, the sum to be jiaid within two days or, in the alternative, the prisoner to serve a sentence in gaol not exceeding two years.
His Honour said prisoner was guilty of a cold, calculated, seltlsh crime, lie noped to gain a perfectly new house, and had endangered the lives of his neighbours. Apparently a grasp for money had been his aim in life, and the court proposed to make him feel the effect ot his crime through his purse, and to show that arson was not * crime to be treated lightly.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20126, 23 February 1937, Page 7
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