Murder.
Auckland. —On the 31st May last the Grand Hotel was destroyed by fire, and at an inquest held on the 15th instant the jury returned a verdict that Leonard, Eva, and Nina Johnston, and Frederick Ayres came to their death by suffocation, caused by the burning of the hotel, which was wilfully set on fire by Florence Jessica Newbigan Minns and other or others. Minns has been arrested for this offence and discharged.
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New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XXV, Issue 16, 31 July 1901, Page 181
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74Murder. New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XXV, Issue 16, 31 July 1901, Page 181
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