FIRE AT INVERCARGILL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 647, 26 October 1909, Page 5

FIRE AT INVERCARGILL.

|:,v 'MAN ARRESTED AND CONFESSES. |, (By TolograpU—Press Association.) I ■•■■■■, : Invorcarflil!,'October 25. ! ,A firo occurred at tbo JYieudly.Societios/Djspensary at' o o clock on Sunday morning, tho shop being gutted and the.stock 'seriously dam-' aged. Mr. Robert Pollock,' the manager, who slept descended by a ro'pe,. and gave tho .alarm, Tho brigade'promptly arrived,, and by means of a ladder rescued three womenone an invalid—who lived upstairs, .Two . men escaped by a back door, 1 . A-powerful stream of water soon: subdued the flames. The insurance on the dispensary buildings whs JE7SO' in the Commercial XJnioa office, and .£250 in the. New Zealand. On tho'stock thcro was JC6OO' in tho Commercial TTnlon office. Tho damage amounts to ',£I2OO. A. Buxton, confectioner, who occupied adjoining premises, had .£95 on liis stock, which wris damaged by water.. -r • ■<■<■■■ >. Regarding tho firo jt has been discovered that the eafa was robbed of .£3O, The thief entered by a back window,'and :jt is surmisod set firo to the promises io destroy hip traces., ■ Tliis afternoon Detective Cameron arrested Victor Von Tunzclmann' at Blulf, - Von Tunzel. Mann admitted having stolen somo -C2S from the.safo in tho shop while the 'disponsnr was asleep upstairs, and then having set fire to tho premises.': Ho was formerly, employed as an assistant in the dispensary, and consequently v the .: rim. o», place. When arrested at BiuiT he had spent a portion of tbo stolon money in purchasing a now outfit of clothes. Ho will nppeor before the Court tomorrow to answer to charges of burglary and incendiarism. , . , v-- „' ! <