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- 1900 FRIDAY
WILFUL DAMAGE.
Charles Doggett, aged 14, was charged under the Police Act with having willfully damaged property by Betting fire to the camp of an aboriginal native, named Tommy King, situated on the Perth road. Accused pleaded guilty.
Selena Griffiths.said that she was with the accused when he set fire to the camp. The camp consisted of bushes. Witness' father tried to extinguish the fire but failed. Accused had ran away by that time.
Alexander Griffiths gave corroborative evidence.
The B.M. called the mother of the accused
before the Court, and spoke severely of the seriousness of the offense. He said the parents would have to pay £1, the value of the property destroyed, and ordered that the boy be sent to an industrial school for two years
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