TRAGIC DEATH

Hokitika Guardian, 19 August 1933, Page 4

TRAGIC DEATH

TWO BOYS BURNED AT PLAY

(United Press Association-rDy E’-ectrifi

Telegraph—Copyright.)

LONDON, August 16. Two little boys los; their lives in pathetic circumstances. Haying permitted her only son, Denis, aged six, to go- and play in- a baker’s handcart in an adjacent yard, Mrs- Dwyer, m> widow, of Goldsmith ‘Street,, continued her housework. until she htard a police whistle. •• '

She then discovered that Denis, with ,a companion, Clifford McMahon —aged three—also an only child—had been ■burned to death inside the vehicle. It ig believed that the boys entered the cart, which contained paper bags .and a sack, and began playing wi'-h matches, setting'fire to the Vehicle .and becoming suffocated ' almost immedi-

ately. Neighbours, unaware of the tragedy because there h:d been no. outcry, dragged the flaming cart into the street, and were horrified, after extinguishing the fire with buckets of water, to disover the charred bodies.

McMahon’s grandparents, with whom he had been spending a holiday prior t-o returning to' 1 has. parent,h collapsed, and were taken to hospital.