Seven Men Arrested For Alleged Arson

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1018, 8 July 1930, Page 1

Seven Men Arrested For Alleged Arson

FIVE REFUSED BAIL FIRES IN EMPTY HOUSES From Our Oxen Correspondent HAMILTON, Today. Seven young men were arrested at Cambridge last night and charged in the Hamilton Police Court today with being concerned with the setting alight of three unoccupied houses, two at Hamilton and one at Cambridge recently. Their names were Alfred Donnington Brown, 23, Edward Daniel Brown, 21, John Meredith, 28, John Vickers Featherstone, IS, Harvey Charles Hall, 22, Sydney Walter Goodall, 21, and Alan Pennell. 17. Detective-Sergeant Thompson said that several fires occurred in unoccupied dwellings about the Waikato in the past three months. Some motorcars had also been destroyed by fire, but as police investigations were incomplete he asked for a remand until July 15. He described accused as an organised gang of hoodlums who went from place to place in a car owned by the Brown Brothers, who kept a garage at Cambridge. Bail was refused in five of the cases, the magistrate ordering Pennell to be dealt with by the Juvenile Court. Pennell was granted bail of £SO. Meredith, in view of his mother's sickness, was granted bail of £2OO. The magistrate said the charges were serious and the others must be kept in custody.