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lavercargill, Wednesday. Late l*st night a constable discovered that premises of the Progress Industrial Society, grocers, in Kelvin street, had been entered, a large platsglass, window having been broken, and a fire had been started in the backroom, cases sprinkled with kerosene being alight. After the b'rigade had returned to the station, two firemen saw a man passing with a bundle over his shoulder. They approached him, when he feigned illness and begged for water. While one of the iiremen was getting this, the man dealt, the other a blow with a weapon Of some sort, knocking him down, and then escaped, leaving the bag. This morning the police arrested John Douglas Stark, aged 20, in connection with the affair. He was brought before the Court and remanded till Monday. About an hour before the Kelvin streei affair the window of a jeweller's shop in Don sireci; was broken, but nothing was missing.
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Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 12 November 1920, Page 4
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155DESPERATE CHARACTER. Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 12 November 1920, Page 4
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