ATTEMPT AT ARSON
LABOURER FOR SENTENCE (By Telegraph.—Special to Times) AUCKLAND, Thursday On a charge of attempted arson, Henry Edward John Williams, labourer, aged 21, appeared in the Police Court yesterday, before Mr C. R. Orr Walker, S.M. He pleaded guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. It was stated that accused directed the brigade to a fire in Freeman’s Bay. When interviewed at his home about two hours after the fire, and asked how he knew there was a fire, accused replied after an interval: “I did it for spite. I had a row with people living there.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21199, 23 August 1940, Page 7
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102ATTEMPT AT ARSON Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21199, 23 August 1940, Page 7
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