BURNT TO DEATH
(Bv Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, July 2.
An elderly one-legged invalid lost his life when fire gutted a small wooden cottage at the centre of Freeman’s Bay late yesterday. He was Thomas Kelvin Robert Powley, aged 69, retired driver. Mr. Bowler, who had been bed-ridden ever since he lost his leg three years ago, resided with his brother and his wife. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Powley, who rented the cottage. The building was very old. Mr. Powley i was alone in the house when the fire began. Mrs. Powley left to go on a small errand and when she returned half an hour later she found smoke billowing from the windows and Haines pouring from the back door. Neighbours hud forcibly to restrain Mrs. Powley from entering the house in an attempt to extricate her brother-in-law, whom she had left in bed in his room just off the kitchen.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 236, 3 July 1944, Page 4
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151BURNT TO DEATH Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 236, 3 July 1944, Page 4
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