ALLEGED ARSON.
By Telegraph—Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, September 27. A man, named Robert O'Callaghan, a timber and coal merchant, was arrested to-night on a charge of araon. Accused rented a small cottage in Linwood, which he furnished, and he is alleged to have attempted to fire the building, yesterday afternoon, by placing a lignted candle suriounded by paper and dry chips in a cupboard. The candle, however, was discovered, and extinguished before it had burned down to the heap of in fam mable material. O'Callaghan's furniture was insured for £IOO.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8545, 28 September 1907, Page 5
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89ALLEGED ARSON. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8545, 28 September 1907, Page 5
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