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A joint charge of arson was read against two 20-year-old men Tuesday in Victoria Pro vincial Court after one of five Thanksgiving holiday week end fires in Greater Victoria which caused total damage estimated at $100,000 and left two families homeless. John Robert Atkinson of Vancouver and Terry Darrow Emerson, 1195 Trans-Canada Highway, were charged with unlawfully and wilfully setting fire Sunday night to the King dom—Hall of the Jehovah's Witnesses at 1095 Joan Cres cent in Victoria They were remanded one week for further hearing and released on their undertaking to return next Tuesday. Meanwhile, Tsartlip Indian Chief Charles Elliott said money, food, bedding, cloth ing and “every househould item'' were needed for two families who lost their home in a Central Saanish fire early Tuesday. He asked that offers of aid be phoned to the Tsartlip band office at 652-2913 or his home at 652-3200 at night. Damage was estimated an+ officially, at $20,000,in the fire that left the families of brothers Wayne and Howard Morris homeless and at a similar amount in a second Central Saanich fire, at’ 7855 Simpson Monday afternoon. A fire of unknown origin there caused extensive dam age to the two-storey frame home rented by Ronald Woods and occupied by ~ several young ‘persons. No one was home when the blaze began and it was spotted by a Cen tral Saanich volunteer fire man who lives nearby. Other weekend fires, both occurring Saturday, caused damage of about $12,000 each, to homes at 1139 Mason and 1331 Esquimalt. No one was hurt. Victoria Deputy Fire. Chief Carl Coates said damage was
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Victoria Daily Colonist
Victoria, British Columbia, CA
Wed, Oct 16, 1974
Page 61
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