ALLEGED ARSON AND FRAUD
fER PRESS ASSOCIATION. Invebcabgill, May 10. Mary Vial, a married womsn, and Soger Meldrum, her brother, were committed for trial to-day for burning a house in Nith-street, InvercargiU, on 13th Novembsr with intent to defraud the New Zetland Insurance Company of .£7O, infunoce on furniture. This was the ca-e in which fuinitnre w»s borrowed from a neighbour and returned after tbe visit of the insurance official. It appeared from "he evidence that Vial repeatedly spoke to her neighbour of her iut.ut io burn t,h« home and get the insurance, al u ,-.:u /- ing the in the over thmantel in which inflammable stuff could he pot to start a blaz-s. Vi 1 went to Riverton, 20 mile* off, the d s.y { before the firo, taking some effects with her. Meldrum was charged because he was tbe only person in the housa when the fire occurred. Owing to the excellent pressure of water the fire wa« quenched before the house was totally destroyed, and on ex*uuna'ion vtv littla furci'cure was found in it The accused were allowed bail, £4OO each in all.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 107, 12 May 1902, Page 3
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184ALLEGED ARSON AND FRAUD Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 107, 12 May 1902, Page 3
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