ALLEGED INGENDIARISM.
Per Press Association.
Intbbcakgiix, July 29,
At a further hearing of the charge of burning a ne ghbour's stack against Guiseppe Valli (Night caps) a witness who was working for accused and slept in the same room with him deposed i that Valli came into the rocm about ! 1.30 and woke him, and, after some talk about where be had beer, [said he had set O'Dowd's stacks ou fire. He got witness out of I of bed to see the fire, and he saw smoke and a dim reflection of fire in thy direction of O'Dowda's. The incendiary is supposed to n:i.ve ridden to thy stackß, and th 6 track of a hack was found on Vallis' farm, but it had the shoes removed and these cannot ba found, O'Dowd said he had watched his stacks at night for three weeks, and that there was only one party he was afraid of in the district. The staoks had been simultaneously fired, as the straw stack between was untouched. O'Dowd had made a bargain with one Reid to thresh the stacks, but finding that Yalli was his partner would not allow him to do the work. The heariue; whs not concluded.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 178, 30 July 1903, Page 2
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202ALLEGED INGENDIARISM. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 178, 30 July 1903, Page 2
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