FATAL FIRE IN THE CITY.
MAN BURNER TO DEATH. Early this morning the Fire Brigade received a, coll to a, fquf-roqmed house situated orl the hillside at th<s top of llajonbanks Street On arrival the trfgado found the building to be. a sl)eefj of flame, and—as inevitable at the outset —it was totally destroyed' On searching the building after the flames were ■> suppiessfd ,the brigade foifnd the ehftrred bqdy of a, pjaji Until then the brigadesmen had no idea that anyone wfts in the building, the neighbours, it seemsy being unable to provide information on this point All that could bo gathered this ( mproing wag that the occupier of the house, was named Hipkey, tint he worked in the Union S S Company's " yard/ and that his wife was believed to be away on a holiday The body wpß found in a bedroom, in a Sitting pqsitiqn, clad, in underpants, and B.QX, It seemed as if the fire had started in the hedrogni ,o?f sti; deoejsed inay have been overcome by snjoke on getting qut of>bed. Thq body was removed to ihe' morgue, > >
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 587, 16 August 1909, Page 7
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183FATAL FIRE IN THE CITY. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 587, 16 August 1909, Page 7
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