A REVENGEFUL SLAVEY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2146, 10 April 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

A REVENGEFUL SLAVEY.

The following item comes from Buffalo, N.V., under date Jan. 23 :— Alice Halter, a prepossessing girl of 14 yeats, was arrested last night on a charge of arson in the first degree. On Thursday night •he desired to go to a party with the family of her employer, John J. Berger. They refused to take her, and in revenge ahe attempted to set the house on fire. After the family had left she put the two children who remained at home to bed She theu gathered a lot of paper and other inflammable material, and piled some of it in the bedroom and some in a pantry. After saturating the piles wit)) ooal oi\ sne set ft™ t0 fc hem. While she was engaged in starting the fire in the bedroom the hired man fortuuately returned and put out the flames in the pantry. Seeing smoke issuing from the sleeping apartment he rushed in there and succeeded in stamping out the flames. Mr Berger preferred a charge of arson against Alice and she is held for trial.

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