CAUGHT IN THE ACT.
By Telegraph —Press Association. WELLINGTON. June 6. For several years past the Wellington Fire Brigade has been frequently summoned by false alarms of fire from the vicinity of Hankey and Hopper streets. Three" such alarms were indulged in ladt night. On the occasion of the last one, about a quarter to twelve, a Miss Harri=>, living in the neighbourhood, saw a man i:i the act of giving an. alarm,' He broke the glass of the alatm box with a pocket knife. She rushed out and seized him by the coat collar, but the man escaped from .Mis? Harris, though not before he nad cut one of her hands with the pocket knife. The man went into his house in South Avenue, off Hopper street. The police and brigade had then rrived, and the man was arrestel He is a married man, named John Evans, a dustman in the employ of the Corporation.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3208, 7 June 1909, Page 5
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156CAUGHT IN THE ACT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3208, 7 June 1909, Page 5
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