INQUIRY INTO THE FIRE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1035, 9 December 1881, Page 3

INQUIRY INTO THE FIRE.

An inquiry into the fire that took place on the morning of Tuesday, the 22ml iustv in a range of buildings at ihe rear of Airs ‘George’s Dunslan. Hotel, Clyde, ami used as loose boxes, fowl house, and hath house, was Re don Fiiday last the 2nd hist, befoie Major Redded Coroner, and a jury of ■twelve.

The only evidence adduced was that of the servant girl, who deposed to being ■awoke between 3 aud-d in the morning, and •on putting the window blind aside and looking out, saw the building in flames.; that she at -once alarmed the groom, who was sleeping on the premises- rung the house lied, and generally gave the alarm ; and that afterwards she assisted in subdueing the .flames, which fortunately w ere -confined to the building in which they started. She had not seen any strangers about the place the previous night, and there being no fire about she couhl not foim any cleans to how it originated. The groom gave similar evidence.

Ihe Coroner having commented on the ■evidence,the. jmy returned an open verdict : that the budding was destroyed by ■ the cn the mom mg of the 22ud ult, but there was ■evidence as to how t originated.

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