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Incendiarism Extraordinary |
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INCENDIARISM EXTRAORDINARY. -- At Maidstone assizes, on Monday week, Job LAUTENCE, a child seven years of age, was tried for setting fire to a stack of wheat, the property of Thomas GILLOW, a farmer, at Wednesborough, on the 24th October. The boys in the neighbourhood had been making bonfires; the prisoner was detected immediately after he had set fire to the stack; and he did not deny it. According to the recommendation of the judge, the jury acquitted the prisoner, on the ground that his tender years, added to a weakness in his intellect, made him not properly accountable for his actions.
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Carlisle Patriot