BURNED TO DEATH
MAN ALONE IN HOUSE (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Monday. A soldier of the last war was burned to death on Friday in a house in which he lived alone at Valley Road, Paraparaumu. He was Mr. George Roxburgh Freeman, aged 58. At 8.20 p.m. two men from a substation half a mile away saw the house in flames. They rushed there and found the back door locked. Fire prevented them from getting near the front ■ door. Other residents came, but the fire blazed so fiercely that nothing could be done, nor was it then known that Mr. Freeman was actually inside. By 11 p.m. the blaze had sufficiently abated for a police officer to enter what remained of the house and Mr. Freeman's body was found on a wire mattress in a bedroom. Sisters of Mr. Freeman live in Wellington and Levin.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 132, 6 June 1944, Page 6
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