FIRE NEAR NAPIER
DWELLING DESTROYED Press Association. NAPIER, To-day. Fire totally destroyed a six-roomed house at Clive at 1 a.m. this morning. It was owned by W. J. Kelly, of Napier, and occupied by W. H. Thurlow'. Insurances on the house amount to £7OO, the furniture being covered for £SOO. Wilson had previously stated he worked. Inquiries made of the postal officials, however, elicited the information that no one by the name of “Rawlins” was employed at the office. At six o’clock, finding the house locked, the owner forced the back door. The bedroom door was also locked and, forcing this, he discovered Wilson and Miss Walton dead in bed. A rubber tubing led from the gas stove in the kitchen to the bedroom, the gas pipe to the stove having been cut through and the tubing attached to this. There was tubing in the house, but not sufficient to reach to the bedroom, and an extra length had apparently been secured from some source or other. The gas was still on when the discovery was made.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 253, 16 January 1928, Page 1
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