WANGANUI ARSON CASES
HEAVY SENTENCES. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington. Yesterday. Joseph Paul Davis and Martin Haines, who had been found guilty of | arson in connection with the fire at the Rutland Hotel, Wanganui, were to-j day sentenced to seven years' imprison-' ment with hard labor. The Chief Justice said it was not an ordinary case of. arson. If it had been he would have dealt with it more leniently. The fact was, if the fire had not taken place at, the time it did, and, as he believed,' contrary to the expectation of Haines,' if it had been delayed an hour, there! would have been no chance of saving, the lives of any of the people in the 1 hotel. The prisoners therefore risked i human life, and any action which had any effect on human'life he (His Honor) always looked upon with horror, and he could not deal with the case otherwise than from that pojnt of view.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 37, 24 May 1910, Page 5
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159WANGANUI ARSON CASES Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 37, 24 May 1910, Page 5
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