NEIGHBOURS' VENDETTA.
SETTLER'S EXTRAORDINARY ACT. (Br Telegraph —frees Ar>cooiaUon.) >■ Dannevirke, February 15. On Thursday evening; last, when busk flies, wore raging, a haystack belonging to n farmer named Hails Bai was destroyed. Suspicion foil on' Thomas _0. Kershaw, tho occupier of the adjoining firm, of having set the. stack alight as revenge for. the destruction of his stack through the alleged spreading bf a fire from Bat's fawn -Kershaw, who is (stated to havo been under the influence of liquor at the time, kept guard in the Tioihity of the stack with a loaded gun until tho hay was consumed. fieforo Mr. S. ErM'Carthy, S.M., this meroing, Kershaw was charged with arson and with attempting, to discharge a loaded gufl at.CharlM Bivi, ; Acoueed admitted setting flro, to the ,6taok and having taken the gun to return tho fire of tlie Bftis if they shot nt him. Accused'"pteadbd"' truilty of tho Ch-"""' —OA" ■' Tiie oJiargo of : attempting to shoot was dismissed, ' there being no' OvldehCfi supporting it; Kershaw was cenifliltted! to the Supreme Court for sentence, j
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1676, 17 February 1913, Page 6
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176NEIGHBOURS' VENDETTA. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1676, 17 February 1913, Page 6
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