BURNED TO DEATH.
FATALITY AT TAHORA. WORKER’S TRAGIC END. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Stratford, Last Night. Nows was received in Stratford today to the effect that a man named James Browiu employed by the Public Works Department on railway construction work at Tahora, was burned to death in his whare, some time during Saturday night. Deceased was in Stratford on Saturday and left for Tahora by the 7 lock train, so it would be somewhere in the vicinity of midnight when he reached his wharc. On Sunday morning, the whare was found to be burned to the ground, and the body of Brown was found in a sitting posture in the fireplace, with the feet burned off just above the ankles, and the head badly charred. An inquest was opened this morning before Mr. E. J. R. Hill, J.P., of Kohuratahi, acting-coroner. Evidence was given to the effect that the deceased was subject to epileptic fits and it was urobable that the whare caught fire while he. was in a fit. _ A verdict of accidental death was recorded.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 February 1921, Page 4
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178BURNED TO DEATH. Taranaki Daily News, 15 February 1921, Page 4
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