THE LATE TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.
From'the evidence giveii'at the inquest on the bodies of the victims of the West Eyretoii catastrophe,, it appears that: Mrs Simpson, after seeing her husband leave •the house, ■accompanied, her brother,-; a lad-aged i 3, some part of the way to the railway station. This was about 7 o'clook in tho morning, «nd when the two left the liouso the■children were in bod—some asleep and sumo awake-and the wood fire which hud been previously lit in the kitched grate, was. nearly burned out. What happened after .Mrs. Simpson re-' •turned will never be' known. ' The husband says ho does not think sho returned ..to.bediii'ain, as she had three cuws to milk and" her children to dress. The 'probability is that either the house was on firo when she returned, and in trying to'save her children sho. perished with them, or that, while drossitm the children in her bedroom, the tire broke out, and burnt so rapidly in the wooden building that they could not escape, The lire did not oootir, according to evidence given until after Ba.m.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 991, 4 February 1882, Page 2
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181THE LATE TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 991, 4 February 1882, Page 2
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