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A CURIOUS TRAGEDY. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). NEW YORK, October 22. A. father and his J six motherless children, sleeping in a thi - ee-room apartment, were asphyxiated in a cuxious manner. One daughter, Ethel, a.god seventen, kept the house for the father, Walter Cavanagh and the police, in reconstructing the tragedy, found that Ethel rose early, placed a pot of water on the-gas stove, and then fell' asleep. The water, boiling oyer, extinguished the flame, but the gas continued to escape and suffocated the entire family.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 October 1929, Page 3
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