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Labourer ‘set fire to court’
Brisbane, Thursday. – A 30-year-old unemployed labourer was alleged to have set fire to the Brisbane Supreme Court when he appeared in the City Magistrate’s Court today.
David Bertram Brooks, of no fixed address, was remanded in custody until Thursday. Bail was refused when the police prosecutor, Sub-Inspector C. J. Smith, said he considered that Brooks would abscond if granted bail.
Sub-Inspector Smith said it would be alleged that Brooks had been removed from a public toilet in the city at 3am on Sunday by a policeman. He had then gone to the Supreme Court and had opened the front door of the building.
Cupboard fire
He had gone into No 4 criminal court, where he had put some typing paper in a cupboard and lit it with a match. Then he had gone into No 1 civil court, on the first floor, and had