ALLEGED ARSON.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1767, 7 June 1906, Page 2

ALLEGED ARSON.

.} (Per Press Association.) Wanganui, last night. Shortly before midnight a lire broke out in a large two-storey building in Wickstccd Place, occupied as a boarding house by L.

Ashwin, by Hatherlcy and Johnston (printers and publishers), and Kearnc I (commercial agency). The building was gutted, the brigade preventing the spread of the lire to the adjoining buildings. The stock, stationery, etc., in the printing premises were destroyed. Fourteen persons were in the hoarding house, and some, including the bailiffs deputy, who was put in possession yesterday, had a narrow escape, while the body of a man named Burt was found on- the premises when the firemen were able to enter, within an hour of the outbreak. The police arrested Ashwin on suspicion of haying set lire to the premises. Burt’s body was not burnt, save his eyebrows, which were singed. He was evidently I suffocated by the smoke and water. The I building was owned by A. lliggie, and in-1 sured for £6OO. I

The insurances on the building were

£OOO in the Northern, and on the furni ture and effects of the hoarding house £IOO in the United and £SO in the New

Zealand office ; Ilatherley and Johnston, £IOO in State, £IOO in the Liverpool, London and Globe, and £IOO in the Australian Alliance. Kearnc made a proposal for insurance to the Yorkshire office yesterday, but the cover was not completed. Ashwin was brought before the Magistrate this morning on a charge of arson, and remanded for a week,