SUFFOCATED IN FIRE
ELDERLY MAN'S FATE. ißy Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND. August 4. Suffocated by heat and smoke when the house in which he was boarding caught fire on Saturday night Albert Bailey Smith, aged 66. of Newmarket, was found dead in his bed by the firemen. Mr Smith was alone in the house, the occupier. Frederick Norton, his wife and four relatives who stayed there having gone out for the evening. The fire was noticed by a passer-by shortly before ten o'clock and when the tire engines arrived the front door had to be forced. The brigadesmen quickly suppressed the Hames but found that Mr Smith who had gone to sleep was dead.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 August 1940, Page 6
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