ATTEMPTED ARSON.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1987, 2 April 1885, Page 2

ATTEMPTED ARSON.

[by teleguvph.— muss \->sooi\no\.l CiißisrcHUU'H, Wednesday. Aholt 10 o'clock last night a most careful' v planned attempt .it arson w.is discoteied m a three-ivonicd wociden cottage at Ashburno. belonging to a cabman named Richard Hawker. A man named named Harpei was passing the house when he noticed a light shining beneath the front door, while .ill the rest of the house was in darkness Thinking this singular, he looked under the door and saw a candle burning on the floor in the midst of a heap of paper. He at once communicated with the police, who broke in. They found that the place was saturated with keiosene, and that in the kitchen a .second candle was placed in a similar manner in a, heap of papei, and an old coat had boen hung on a chair t» pi event the light trom the second candle being heen. The chinks m the door were -topped with n vnnel, and the fanlight was also daikened. The candles were of the kind used in cablamps and one of them had binned neaih down to the paper when the coiistablt bioke into tin* house. H iwkei was m tested. The house was insuiod for t!100 in the London and Linca-hue <>fhci».