A MYSTERIOUS VISITOR
AND A STRAXfiE COIXCIDEXCE. Auckland, February 21. According to the evidence given nt the inquest yesterday on the death of the old man Albert Xorris, the victim of the Hobson-strcct fire, there had been a previous blaze in a spare room on the preceding Sunday, and a mysterious visitor, who refused to give a reason for his presence, had been found in the dining-room. A stranger coincidence is the fact that in an adjoining building known as Dominion House there were two outbreaks of (ire within 24 hours of the Scotia House fatality. These, however, the occupier, Mrs. Don, informed a reporter had clearly been the result of accidenis. In one case a boarder had left a candle too close to the bedclothes, and in the other instance the curtain had accidentally been set alight. The police are making enquiries in regard to the Scotia House fire.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 247, 24 February 1911, Page 2
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150A MYSTERIOUS VISITOR Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 247, 24 February 1911, Page 2
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