DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6, 7 January 1914, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS.

. , ' -o —-r I- ■ i')ll9flflll(i') .-CI 't'llil'l'! {T«l'i !, ■■? ■A CVrARCE ARSON.- ' | '»•' 'I llUflt'jji ■ %!'-)"'■ 1) S'il'K.'l fi i I J'KEBS 'ASSOCIATION, J 1,7 I :i.'htf<|«)l» nv ! *fH"J.'M ■" ' U'i , )( i , ( ~ „ limaru, January 6. ~.;. 4 taaxi! named James. Mitcliejll was arrested at JRangitata on Monday on a charge of arson in connection with a , ,||| t '.■,■;:■.■ ... lire; which destroyed an unoccupied hou>se at Goraldine on December 28. Accused- was brought before the Geraldine Court .to-dav, and was remanded lor a week. "MADLY IN LOVE." Nelson, January, 6. A young man named Douglas Keir Gibb appeared today on remand, to answer a charge that, with intent to commit a crime, he attempted to cause a young person (a young woman) to bo eli'ected with chloroform. The evidence showed that the accused boarded at the house of the girl's parents and was madly in love with her, but his attentions had been rejected. He had been eccentric l'previously, and had entered her room with a. revolver, threatening to shoot himself. Counsel for the defence submitted that it was more likely that Gibb intended to chloroform himself,, not the girl. ' ' • Accused was discharged.