BURNED FURNITURE TO GET INSURANCE
YOUNG MAN FATALLY ILL TRIED TO HELP WIFE Press Association DUNEDIN, To-day. With no hope of l-ecovery from a fatal complaint and with a wife and child destitute, a young man, Walter Reynolds Sanders, set fie to a storeroom containing his furniture to secure the insurance for his wife. He received £42 as the assessed damage to it. , _ Sanders pleaded guilty in the Police Court this morning to a charge of arson and was committed for senThe plea for the suppression of his name because his wife was in delicate health, and because accused’s health was so precarious and his prospects so black, was refused, but he was admitted to bail on nominal security.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 375, 8 June 1928, Page 13
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