Chapter 266: Section 11.    Fire alarm, engine or apparatus; injury before fire.
	Whoever, within twenty-four hours prior to the burning of a building         or other property,  wilfully, intentionally and without right  cuts or removes    a bell rope    or a wire    or conduit connected with a fire alarm signal system    or injures    or disables any fire alarm signal box         or any part of such system in the vicinity of such building         or property,  or cuts, injures or destroys an engine, hose or other fire apparatus in said vicinity  shall be punished by a  fine of not more than five hundred dollars  or by imprisonment for not more than two years.