Incendiarism: Two serious fires, believed to be the work of incendiaries, are reported from Devonshire. On Friday morning, about eight o’clock, some ricks of corn on the property of Mr. Pinsent of Ware Farm, near Kingsteington, were discovered in flames. A strong breeze was blowing and in a short time 13 ricks of wheat and two of oats were almost entirely destroyed; damages estimated at about £500. On the same day a fire broke out on the farmstead of Mr. Pollard, near Paignton. The flames were first seen in a rick containing about 15 acres of wheat straw, and were soon communicated to two hay-ricks, the property of 30 acres; thence to a building 300 feet in length, used as a barn and loose boxes for cattle; estimated value of the property destroyed £450 to £500.
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GRO0369 Hennock: Gilbert Pinsent: 1840 – 1918