THREE YEARS' GAOL
SENTENCE FOR ARSON
OFFENCE IN TARANAKI
Having set fire to the lavatory of the Junction Hotel at, Toko, near Stratford, because the licensee refused to supply him with any more liquor, Douglas Eraser, a farm hand, aged 56, appeared for sentence, before Mr. Justice Eecd at the Supreme Court today on a charge of arson. His Honour said that the prisoner had pleaded guilty to the serious criminal offence of arson. He had set fire to a building attached to a hotel, and it might very well have spread to the hotel and popple might have been burnt. Unfortunately it was not the prisoner's first offence; he had committed arson some years ago. On that occasion ho was given reformative detention. His Honour said that he proposed to increase the sentence to three years' hard labour.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 72, 26 March 1934, Page 11
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139THREE YEARS' GAOL Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 72, 26 March 1934, Page 11
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