A SUSPICIOUS FIRE. EXTRAORDINARY EVIDENCE.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 250, 28 March 1888, Page 6

A SUSPICIOUS FIRE. EXTR AO RDINARY EVIDENCE.

Duxkdiv, March 24. As inquiry was held at Lawrence to-day regarding a fire at Waitahuna, by which tl)o house property of Thos Scott was destroyed. The evidence was of a most extraordinary ob.iractei 1 , iSomo goods had been found planted in a haystack, among 1 them being a family Bible in which was an album. Tho.h Scott, the .supposed owner of the Bible, could not .swear to it being his when, produced in Court, Jli.s sson even went further, and would not swear to his own photo. I'hcry article produced, lie said, was like what they had, but he could not .swear if it was theirs. Tie would not swoiir w a \olunteer cap being his. The (laughter was troubled with forgetful iicsf, and it Wiis not tiil the (,'oioncr repeatedly tliKMtoned to commit her to gaol that she could be induced to remember. The consiable described a la) go number of article 3 lound in the ha} stack, including a gun, \iohn, bo\e.->, Ace. The con-table, on hndmg the plant, lrmded the gun aiul \iolin to Scolt to lay down s-jfeh whilst he was in the .stack, but when ho came down thty wore gone. All thiee ot ScottS family swore they hail not seen the^e article^ .it t !i« .-tack. The inquiry was going on w lion the telegraph oilice closed.