APPALLING CRIME
4 SEVEN YEARS' IMPRISONMENT FOR ARSON. SENTENCE ON MAORI WOMAN. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) GISBORNE, Aug. 17. ’ “You are guilty of an appalling crime inspired by jealousy. You sought to injure another woman and you carried out your fiiendish work with diabolical deliberation,” said Mr Justice Quilliam when sentencing Rebecca Haerewa, a Maori woman, to seven years’ imprisonment with hard labour for arson. The prisoner had pleaded guilty to setting fire to the Waipiro Bay Hotel, and the judge, referring to the deliberate character of the crime, said that she had watched the building to make sure that her intended victim was indoors, then waited a further space of time to allow her victim to retire to bed, subsequently saturating a portion of the building with kerosene and setting it afire. “But for the fortunate circumstance that the fire was discovered in time the woman would have perished and five other innocent people would have been endangered and you would have been facing a charge involving the supreme penalty,” added the judge.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 August 1938, Page 9
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173APPALLING CRIME Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 August 1938, Page 9
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