A FATAL FIRE.
AN ELDERLY S!AN BURNT TO DEATH. LODGER’S NARROW ESCAPE. (Per Press Association.) Wellington, January 3. A fatal fire occurred in Taranaki Street at 1.30 o’clock this morning. A house of ten rooms owned by Mrs Heard and occupied by James Scott and wife, was discovered to be on (ire. The brigade were unable to prevent the place being gutted. A ledger named Percy McLean struggled out of a window with his night clothes ablaze and clambered down the side of the house. He collapsed, and it was found that he was badly burned about the head and body. He was removed to the hospital" Subsequently the body of John Calvert, a newspaper runner, was found in a room from which lie bad been imablo to escapft. Deceased was about fifty-four years of age.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 17, 3 January 1912, Page 5
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136A FATAL FIRE. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 17, 3 January 1912, Page 5
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