CONVICTED OF ARSON.
A TERRIBLE RECORD, Per Press Association. Invbrcaeqill, September 4, Guis ppe "V ailt was f >und guilty of Batting fiiv to the slacks of O'Dowd, a settlor at Night Oips. It is assumed that the act was one of revenge, Ds>ec f ive Mcllverney said that for 10 years prisoner had been a scourge to the dis'rist and no n had given mora trouble to the police. Time after time mills and staoks had been burned, and the detective oould arrive at no other conclusion than tint prisoner had caused them. There had been minjr other acts of mischief such as outting saddlery, and mutilating horses taila and manes, and these were almost direotly traceable to prisoner, who bad also been suspected ot theft. Prisooer denied being guilty of any of these things. The Judge said he would not attach so much weight to th* s**te< meets of the police as to the general aspeot of the orime. The sentence would be three years.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 197, 5 September 1903, Page 2
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167CONVICTED OF ARSON. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 197, 5 September 1903, Page 2
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