FOUND DEAD
TRAGEDY AT ROTORUA. TWO MEN ASPHYXIATED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) ROTORUA, This Day. Apparently victims of asphyxiation, through a match or cigarette setting alight to a pile of sacks and old matting beside their bed, two men, Alan Birnie (57) and Donald McLean (57), were found on Sunday morning lying together dead on a bed in an old building commonly known as the (losshouse, and used as a shelter by itinerant labourers and others of no fixed place of abode. When the discovery was made by another occupant of the building the room was full of smoke and a large section of the flooring beside the bod was smouldering. The men, who were both single, and had worked about the district for a number of years past as casual labourers, were last seen on the previous evening, but arc believed to have returned to the shelter together to spend the night.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 July 1940, Page 6
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152FOUND DEAD Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 July 1940, Page 6
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