TERRIBLE TRAGEDY
BOY INCINERATED. (United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright). • it : LONDON, Aug. 9. A six-year old boy named Percy Moss land, residing at Liverpool, was incinerated before his i mother’s eyes while he was playing with his eightyear old brother, Harold. - The boy Percy climbed into a straw-" 1 filled crate, seven feet high. Harold .'theft lighted the straw. The flames then shot up. Harold made frantic efforts to rescue Percy, hut the crate was too high for him. He then called his mother, who also was unable to . reach her son. , A man was then hastily summoned from an adjoining shop, who flung r r himself at the crate, which was thereby overturned, but he was unable to reach the boy Percy, owing, to the : heat. ’ ■ The boy was dead when the fife brigade arrived.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 August 1929, Page 5
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136TERRIBLE TRAGEDY Hokitika Guardian, 10 August 1929, Page 5
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