LIONEL TERRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 233, 25 September 1908, Page 4

LIONEL TERRY.

ANOTUEIi JiJD FOlt NOTOUI'ETY. I By Telegraph. - Press Association. ChrisU-hurch, Last Night. Considerable excitement was caused ill Lyttelton gaol this morning | lv il;1 outbreak of lire in the hospital. ' The warder on duly on the watch-tower, wnieii is .situated iimiicdiali'l.v above. Uiut wing, noticed dons,, smoke rising from tli,' centre of the building. and n't once rang ilic alarm !>,'ll on tin- tower. The warders who were on duty and I Ilit' prisoner* working about liie yard immediately set to work with buckets of water on tile lire, which was found to have Us scat mulct the w.md.ii Mail way leading from tile enirance passage to the u|i|ior stnrev nf the wing. The Haines were i,veaking through the stabs, lint were got under ill a few minutes. The ilamage dfine was not very great. ti lo stairway being badly charred, as was also some adjoining woodwork. A few pounds will' cover | everything. The gaoler (Mr. Henry) informed a reporter that he w.-i-. very strongly of opinion that the fire was deliberately started l,v rjouel Terry with the object of creating Mini" IA . citoment. Terry, a- is well known, haliee.i conlined in LyHcltnn gaol for some lime. Ilk quarters are in t"<io I'o-pitnl whig, the door nf bis room 1 opening on to |.lr : passage a few feel from the stnirw.iv under which the fire started. Thai portion of tile gaol occupied by Terry was gazetted an asylum, and lie has far more privileges (!!•■ are allowed to (lie prisoners. Mr. Clean- informed a Truth reporter that Terry would make 710 admi--sinn of any snrl that lie had had >i hand in the starting of the fire. A quantity of paper and a nortiin of 1 mat partlv burned were found in tlic recess under the stairway.