SEAMAN BURNED TO DEATH
Melbourne, Sept. 30. Gunner Albert Schwanborg. 28. a Norwegian merchant seaman, was burned to death in a room at Carlyon’s Hotel. Spencer street, cit3 f , early yesterday. Nellie Watkins, an employee of the hotel, saw smoke issuing from the room at 7 a.m., and Schwanborg was found lying on a bed that was in flames. He had beten seen entering his room about 3 a.m., and it is thought that he had been smoking, the bedding caught on fire, and he was overcome by fumes. A postmortem examination at the city morgue revealed that the main cause of Schwanborg’s death was suffocation.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 19 October 1942, Page 2
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