SHOCKING FATALlTY At KRANGAHAKE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2138, 23 March 1886, Page 2

SHOCKING FATALITY At KRANGAHAKE.

|by telegraph. — ow.v coßKß3POvn::s*r 1 Thymes, M w-hy. A terrible fat ility occurred at K.iri-i£i luko on Siturday afternoon, when a muhl cottage, UM'.d as a slea'jiing ,i[j.ut.njnt, (if, <md adjoining Richard V> boai«iin^-h>'t> ■. was burned down. Two children wviv locked in the room ac the time, the moth t b?mpf absent for .1 few minutes. On r^tnrnm>? she found the home in flumes nnrl the children bin n°.d to djjath. At the in quest, (in Saturday List tlie only evidence •,<( importance adduced wis that of Uie father Rich. Rich ire's, who depus'd to the u%;*> of the children, which were three 'and a half and twoye.u-., respectively. The b nidi u r had been n>ad as a slo-pinjf ,qiirl nient and there was a lot of mflvinrilrt in^iterial littered about the floor. Ti • children were in the habit of p!. tying ii the place, and were in there on the d.vy in jueation. The fnateninf» to the do >r \vi» rather unworkible, nnd could only b; arranged from in-dde. Upon b^venl occasions the children had locked them telves in the room, and the parents h.vd ;reit difficulty in getting them o.it a^ain. A box containing matclies w.is kept »:i a shelf in the building, and in playing wit' this' it i>» just possible the children set fire to the premises. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death."