Alleged Incendiarism at Gloucester: Accused Committed for Trial: At the Gloucester Police Court, before the mayor and other magistrates, on Wednesday, John Austin, 17, who had been in the employ of Messrs. Price. Walker and Co., Ltd., timber merchants, as an assistant sawyer and residing at No. 8, Lyson’s Bristol Road, Gloucester, was, in connection with certain fires there on the 3rd, 4th and 5th March, charged with incendiarism. Mr. Frank Eden Smith (of the firm of Messrs. Pinsent and Co., solicitors, Birmingham) appeared on behalf of the prosecution; and Mr. H. Allen Armitage (Messrs. Armitage and Hole. solicitors, Gloucester) represented the accused. Inspector Weaver, of the Gloucester police, and other witnesses, having given evidence, the accused, who reserved his defence, was committed for trial at the Assize.
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