THE FIRE IN MAJORIBANKS STREET.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 588, 17 August 1909, Page 7

THE FIRE IN MAJORIBANKS STREET.

With regard to the fire which broke our about ' 1.30 ' yesterday rooming at '79b Marjonbiuilfs Street the building, a four-roomed houso, was owned by Mr. Archibald ' M'Dottald, and insured itt the Northern Insurance Office for £150, and for a similar amount in tbo\ Commercial. Union. The contents were insured for £75 in the Northern Union Office. The adjoining throe-roomed cottage, owned tittd oocuplod by Mr* Archibald ■> M'Donald, > was slightly damagod. It was covered by a policy, for £100 in the Northorn Union.' •

AN INQUEST.

An inquiry into the sflfr rounding the death of Thomas Hickey, boilormaker, whoso remains were discovered among tho ruins of liis house in Majoribanks Street—No. 79n—wlu'cll was destroyed Ly firo y&Usrdny morning, was conducted at the Morgiio yesterday Afternoon bj Dr. A. W. M'Arthur, : District Coroner. Sergeant Uutlodgo appeared for the police. Evidence wns , tendered by Superintendent O'Brien, of the.City Firo Brigade, us to.tho finding by the brigade of tho body of deceased in a bedroom of the hOHso,' Archibald M'Donald,; builder, stated that he know <le-, ccasetl, and deposed iis to hi* drinking haliits. 'Evidence was also givoft by Mrs. Hickey, wife of decofscd, who said that sho had boon abselit from' the house since Friday last, on account of her husband's drinking habits. Deceased, sho stated, had on n previous occasion sot the "bed alight when smoking Ms pipe., Other witnossoa examined were Kobort Avhite, iron-fitter,- and Sergeant M'Crorie. The Coroner's finding was to the effect that deceased was bnmoa to death, end that in n\] probability ho hod set -fire to th« : house .while Biuokina in bod,