Alleged Incendiarism.
A SINGULAR CASE. (Per Press Association.') Dunedin, April 17. At Clinton to-day, Matthew Finlay Patterson was committed for trial on a charge of setting tire to three stacks of oats, of the value of £100, belonging to James Nicol, farmer. The evidence was entirely circumstantial. Patterson, who had been working for Nicol, spoke of fire raising in Canterbury, and described how easily stacks could be set on fire with phosphorus, the incendiary being able to be hundreds of miles away when the tire broke out. Patterson, when leaving Nicol's, had a dispute about money, | and sued Nicol, but lost. He was heard to use threats. Patterson purchased phosphorous at Balclutha, aud travelled by rail on Saturday, leaving it at the station nearest Nicol's. On Sunday night the stacks took fire, and not far from the place was found a bottle in which Patterson had carried phosphorous.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 243, 18 April 1896, Page 2
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