AN AUCKLAND TRAGEDY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 1032, 12 August 1911, Page 5

AN AUCKLAND TRAGEDY.

WOMAN BURNT TO DEATH.

By Telegraph—Press Association

AUCKLAND, Last Night. Mrs Julia Kelly, an old age pensioner, 70 years df age, was burned to death, by a; fire, in a six-roomed 'house in Upper Queen Street, which ■she occupied with ner son, Andrew JKelly. The neighbours noticed a smell of fire during the night, but failed to locate t"he Early in tKe morning smoke was "seen issuing from the roof of Kelly's house, and the neighbours found tho place. i ablaze. They dragged Andrew Kelly out of bed. When the Brigade ar- ' rived they found Mrs Kelly on the floor of her bedroom, dead. The body had been badly burned. Ap- I parently the fire originated in the "room she'-slept'in. The police arrested Andrew Kelly ■ on. a cbiarge of drunkenness. TEe fire was discovered by two yonng men. • One gave tho alarm, ntHb'fehe other 1 entered the back door. (were *Tien burning fierceijp[, and the rooms were densely filled ',wjih jsmojee.* Aaidrew Kelly, a lab- {'; nged 40, was Iftfttnd.W'a back bedroom on a bed, "'fully. dressed. He was awakened . with -difficulty and dragged from the burning building. When interrogat•M 'he- was understood to say there was no one else in the "house. The flames . were now bursting 'from, all parts of the building. When the fire brigade arrived it was re- • ported that Mrs Kelly was ,in the house. Water was poured on the front bedroom until the firemen i gained an entrance. They found the •woman lying behind . the bedroom "dpor, dead. The neighbours state that rome

- disturbance was. hoard in the house last evening after Andrew Kelly was seen to enter, but beyond commenting on the matter no action was "taien. Deceased had been nursing for five years, and was regarded as a " kittd-Jhearted, estimable woman.