BURNING HAYSTACKS.
STRONG EVIDENCE AGAINST A FOREIGNER.
By Telegraph—Press Association
Invercargill, last night. At the further hearing of the charge of burning a neighbor’s stack, against Guiseppe Yalli at Night Caps, a witness who was working for accuaeU and slept in the same room with Uim, deposed that Valli came into the room about 1.30 a.m., woke him, and after some talk about where be had been, said that he had set O’Dowd’s stacks on fire. He got witness out of bed to go to the door and see the fire, and he saw smoke and tho dim reflection of a fire in the direction of O’Dowd’s. The incendiary is supposed to have ridden to the stacks, and the tracks of a hack wore found. A horse on Valii’s farm had the shoes removed, and these cannot be found. O’Dowd said he had watched his stacks at night for three weeks, and that there was only one party he was afraid of in the district. The stacks had been simultaneously fired, as the straw stack between them was untouched. O’Dowd had made a bargain with one Reid to thresh the stacks, but finding that Valli was his partner would not allow him to do the work. The hearing has not concluded,
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 955, 30 July 1903, Page 2
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