FOUND GUILTY OF ARSON
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Man Who Set Fire to Hxs Own House
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p WANGANUI, Last Night. I £* the Supreme Court Paul Nodwell,, (aged 57, single, was found guilty by a jjury of wilfully setting flre to hi*. dwelling house thereby committing thoi lerime of arsoai The hearlng lastod three aad a-hal£! days, a second trial being ordered when the flrst wa* three parts eompleted, oal account of the brother of accneed beihg j peen talking to a juryman. CounSel for Nodwell, Mr, V, B. Willis, made an eloquent address lasting an hour and forty minutes. Thej , jury was absent two and a-quarteri hour* including an hour for luneh and. in delivering its verdict, made a strong recommendation for mercy on account of prisoner's state of health. Nodwell was remanded for sentence,
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 30, 19 February 1937, Page 12
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