A Cool Customer
; UNITBD PRKBS ASSOCIATION.) ?!■•■ ■:■-■ ■ir.y^'.Jf \ " . _:•:-:' August 3. 1 A fir© p^urred last night at the Royal Hotel, East Hamilton, but little damage however, was done. The matter was afterward^, be.ing; talked overt*wfien ia man &namM wibhn Philips, a painter, rematked^hat he himself had set the place on tire. Mr Smith the landlord, told him to holid, his tongue, as men had got several years for saying as much m a joke, i Philips is said to have retorted it was no joke, and to hava told others standing by they were fopls fpr assisting tp put out the fire, which, if left to hare its own way, would have provided work for many of them. This' evening Phillips was arrested on a charg^ of arson. ,, . ,■■■:• • c \\;\ \
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Feilding Star, Volume IXI, Issue 21, 4 August 1887, Page 2
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128A Cool Customer Feilding Star, Volume IXI, Issue 21, 4 August 1887, Page 2
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