BURNED TO DEATH.
EARLY MORNING FIRE
Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, July 9
Horace Mann ,aged 61, was burned Lo death early this morning in a twostorey house in York Place occupied by him with two elderly single sisters. Miss Mary Jane Mann, an invalid, and Miss Ellen Mann The former is suffering from shock and the latter frofn burns on her hands and head, but neither is in a dangerous condition. Tlie fire occurred in a sisters’ bedroom, a candle igniting a curtain. YU Mann got his invalid sister out and then returned and was seen no more, the body being found by the brigade at the top of the stairs. The other sister, in seeking escape, wandered into a shed where she was trapped by the flames shooting from the burning building, hut the brigade got her out. The furniture was extensively damaged.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3816, 10 July 1928, Page 1
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144BURNED TO DEATH. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3816, 10 July 1928, Page 1
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