A DRUNKEN MAN’S ACTION.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2701, 4 January 1910, Page 5

A DRUNKEN MAN’S ACTION.

BURNS HIS HOUSE DOWN. I i’jiit Pituss Association.! CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 3. Ten minutes after midnight on Year’s Day Constable Wilson, of tinwood, received word that Mrs Emily Ogier, residing in Inglis street, wanted him, as her husband was drums and was setting the house on fire. On the constable’s arrival he found the house in flames. The brigade were called out, and dicl their best, but the house and contents were totally destroyed. Ihe house belonged to J. S. Barrett. It contained five' rooms. It was valued at £3OO, and was insured in the Victoria office for £l5O. The constable arrested Ogier on a charge of drunkenness; the man said he put kerosene on the kitchen fire, but not with the intention of incendiarism. Mrs Ogier says she saw her husband standing near a window with a broom, and a lighted candle in, his hand. The curtains were burning, and her husband said, “Let them go for the now year.” A detective arrested Ogier this morning on a charge of arson. Ogier admitted firing the house, but not that it was done intentionally.