NEWS BY MAIL

Hokitika Guardian, 17 May 1926, Page 1

NEWS BY MAIL

BURNED TO DEATH. LONDON, March 22. Attracted by piercing screams and noticing smoke coming from a front room of a house in Old North-street, Bloomsbury, late last night, a passer-by raised an alarm which led to an aged recluse. Airs Stone, being found burned to death. Police and firemen forced an entrance to tho house, which is divided into apartments, of which the woman was the landlady. After bursting open the woman’s bedroom door, which was bolted on the inside, they stumbled over her body in front of it. Her charred clothing was still smouldering, and the room, tho windows of vvTiich were closely shut, was full of smoke. She was fully clad. Her clothing had apparently caught firo while she was kneeling before or passing tbe fire. She had been fumbling frantically to undo the bolted door but bad fallen unconscious in the act.

“Airs Stone had lived for years in her one room of the house, but she said she had no relatives and was only visited occasionally by a few friends,” one of the tenants of the house said to a reporter. “She would rarely go outside tbo house. In fact, from one week’s end to another we would only see her when she called for the rent, She kept her door locked.” Alewing piteously when the firemen armed were two cats which had been imprisoned in tho room ,and they were rescued unhurt, A number of cat's—stated to be 13—were kept by the dead woman. BUFFALO PRESERA r ES. EDAIOKTON, Alarch 15. Aloro plains buffalo from the AAainwright, Alberta, national park, will be taken north to the Wood Buffalo Park at Fort Smith, North-West Territories, this coming summer. Animals which were taken north in the summer of 1925 are reported as making excellent progress in their new home.