ALLEGED INCENDIARISM

Otago Witness, Issue 2815, 26 February 1908, Page 28

ALLEGED INCENDIARISM

MAN ARRESTED ON SUSPICION. ATTEMPTED FIRE RAISIKG AT RANGIORA. CHRISTCHUROH, February 19. A man. was arrested in the bar of the C&fede Paris Hotel this morning on suspicion of having deliberately oaueed the fire which was diecovered at the rear of thd hotel last week. An attempt at fire raising at Ranjjfiora on Monday night was planned and carried out in an elaborate way, and it was little short of a miracle that it resulted in failure. It was in a email outbuilding against a wall of the Co-operative Store*' Company's storeroom that the incendiarycarried out his operations. The wall of the: building was saturated with kerosene from. floor to roof, and in some paper, &!a& covered with, kerosene, against the wall £ bottle holding a piece of candle had beeatt placed. Sound the bottle and halfway tip the candle was some raff, also well saturate with kerosene, and to prevent the light < from being seen * tin canister with a iti\ email perforations in it to admit air had, "been placed over the oandlo. Forjfemi&tefcfc. fclie cstni&b&r fn>m c»ona» v*mtf*> tifc<9d «fc ti^Mo^and extinguished the candle just before thtft> flame reached the rag. SEQUEL TO THE CHRISTCHUECH J*TLft"B* CKRISTOHtTRCH, February 22. George Barnep was- found " Guilty " and committed iio the Supreme Court for aaatence on charges of stealing drapery,' jewellery etc., at the recent fire, the pro-* Perty of H. E. Gott {£Wf, WellinjrfoK Woollen MJuiufaotorhifft Oompanv (£l2V* Alfred Henry Oakey W iSS fixed at £100 and. one surety of jBIOO,