Arson.
Patea. —Between the Ist and 4th instant two unoccupied cottages, the property of R. A. A. Adams and James McKenna respectively, were wilfully set, on fire inside the porches; rags and paper saturated with kerosene having been used.
In each case the fire went out before much damage was done. The bricks were also taken oft the top of the chimney in McKenna’s cottage, thrown down therein, and a registergrate broken. Larrikins suspected.
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New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XVI, Issue 23, 16 November 1892, Page 187
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74Arson. New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XVI, Issue 23, 16 November 1892, Page 187
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