INCENDIARISM.

Otago Police Gazette, Volume VI, Issue 5, 10 May 1875, Page 41

INCENDIARISM.

£SO REWARD. Maliciously Setting Eire to a Barn. WHEEEAS about 9 o’clock on the night of the . 31st ultimo, a barn containing a chaff-cutter, harness, and some chaff, situate at Winton Bush, the property of William T. May, value £6O, was discovered on fire by which it was destroyed. And whereas, at an inquest held on the 10th instant, to enquire as to the origin of the said fire, the jury returned the following verdict: —“ That some person or persons unknown to the jury, feloniously, wilfully, and maliciously did set fire to a barn, the property of William T. May, on the night of the 31st March, 1875.

Notice is hereby given that a reward of £SO will be paid by the Provincial Government of Otago to any person who will first give such information to to the police as will lead to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons by whom the said fire was caused, and His Excellency the Governor will be advised to grant a free pardon to an accomplice, not being the person who actually caused the fire, who will give such information as will lead to a like result. T. K. WELDON, Commissioner of Police. Police Office, Dunedin, 16th April, 1875.