IMPRISONED AND SUFFOCATED

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 161, 9 July 1910, Page 15

IMPRISONED AND SUFFOCATED

-a. "atAii'S imsß,ißiM death. ';' Caught like ia rat in a trap, a plumber's mate died a terrible death at a Bayswater fife; The vmsh, whose" name is given as Swlnriey,'Was tfetting with it pluih'b& in the- basement' of a chop occupied toy Messrs fl3ai±ellion, the'Weil-knowri calerers; when ithere was a violent explosion, followed by, flames on the staircase leading up -from tfie basement.' / ttfia-plumbeti WJBdse MfflS 18 W;.ltamia, dashed , up the et&ird tiirdugli the tiames, •thinking ttiat - Swlflfley was following film. JTindlng'thatthls was not so , , he nltide seveial desperate efforts, to rescue his Companion, "fcnt only increased the injuries nvfcich his first dasli thtongtt the flames Bad caused. ■.. .■• ■'-': ifeanwhile/ the unfortunate Swinney could •be Heard Tusblng abotit the downstairs f'dota in an effort to find Bn"outiet. "VYhfen "the .flremen arriTCd> toey were tinttble to reach 4h6 doomed .lnan by Way of itheetidt3, and they. Smashed a small window in tlie lrou-t of the dißeorer that it was heavily barred; Swinney was found, dead .beneath this wln-r. daw, the •deflse stnofie Jiavlng suffocated him, . A fireman and three Chilians were also painfully Injured. Ah eiamlnatJoh of the dead tnah'e.body ShoWed that he Baa been terribly scorched, about the iace, arms and upper part of the ■body. "Apparently the flirst Dnsli of spirit ctttight hitn at the throat, and 'so dazed Tilra that he was unibie to follow the other mai. , Befdte the means of exit iwefe Mocked l^, a mass of flame.;