“I WANT MY WIFE”
INTO BLAZING BUILDING FIREMEN’S DIFFICULT TASK COURT ACTION FOLLOWS "I want my wife! She is in there, and I must get her out!” Stanley Clark, the occupant of a house at Victoria Crescent, Newmarket, who had to be forcibly ejected from his home during a fire late last night, occasioned the firemen no little alarm. Believing that his wife was still in the blazing building, Clark determined to go back for her. Eventually he had to be removed by force. Subsequently Clark was arrested on a charge of drunkennesiS. Nothing was saved from the house, which was owned by Mr. Denton. The building was insured. When .Stanley Keeble Clark, aged 32, appeared in the Magistrate’s Court this morning he was charged with being drunk in Victoria Crescent, Newmarket. It was said that he had one previous conviction within the last six months for the same offence. He was remanded till to-morrow morning for sentence.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 7, 30 March 1927, Page 1
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