The New Hampshire State Fire Marshal's Office is investigating the fire that destroyed David Lidstone's cabin after he told a judge he did not intend to leave as he faced eviction.
A New Hampshire man, 81, facing eviction after living as an off-the-grid hermit in the woods for 27 years, had his cabin destroyed by a fire in the hours after his court hearing Wednesday, the Associated Press reported.
Now, since the cabin was destroyed by a fire Wednesday afternoon, the state's fire marshal office said it is investigating potential causes as of Thursday. Lieutenant Dave Nelson of Canterbury Fire told the AP that the investigation could take a few days and could not provide any leads.During the court hearing, Lidstone told the judge"You came with your guns, you arrested me, brought me in here, you've got all my possessions. You keep 'em.
"You're doing your own thing in the 'Live Free or Die' state, so there's a lot of sympathy to you for that," Merrimack County Superior Court Judge Andrew Schulman told Lidstone."But there's a lot of weight on the other side of the balance sheet, and not just about what the [landowner] wants to do with the land, but the weight I feel to uphold the judgment of the court and the rule of law.
Lidstone, who is originally from Maine, lived on a woodlot located a few miles from Interstate 93 north of the state's capital city of Concord. Most of his possessions were removed from the cabin before the fire.
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