CHARGE OF ARSON
PARMER SETS FIRE TO A HAYSTACK. ' Press Association. DANNEVIRKE, February 15. On Thursday evening last, when bush fires were raging, a haystack belonging to a farmer named Hans Bai was destroyed. Suspicion fell on Thomas 0. Kershaw, tho occupier of the adjoining farm, of having set the stack alight as revenge for the destruction of his stack through the alleged spreading of a fire from Bai’s farm. Kershaw, who is stated to have been under the influence of liquor at the time, kept guard in the vicinity of the stack with a loaded gun until the hay was consumed. Before Mr S. E. McCarthy, S.M., this morning, Kershaw was charged with arson and with attempting to discharge a loaded gun at Charles Bai. Accused admitted setting fire to the stack and having taken the gun to return the fire of the Bais if they shot at him. Accused pleaded guilty of the charge of arson. Tho charges of attempting to shoot were dismissed, there being no evidence supporting it. Kershaw was committed to tho Supreme Court for sentence.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8356, 17 February 1913, Page 7
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181CHARGE OF ARSON New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8356, 17 February 1913, Page 7
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