FIVE PEOPLE PERISH.
A TRAGEDY OF IRELAND. j LONDON, June 10. TTip inquest concerning the deaths of ! fivi; persons in a burning house at MalaI hide, near Dublin, on March 31, has ■'included. I The jury returned a verdict to the ptr«et that the three men died from fractured skulls caused by some person or ; persons unknown. There wa? no evidence to show how the two women met ] their deaths.—(Renter.) j T.a Mam'lia, a country mansion iipnr Dublin, m< nwni'il and occupied by Joseph and Peter MucDonnell and their I two sj-tcr?. They kept a maid servant and a gardener.. Early in the morning a workman discovered that the building was ablazp. tin the arrival of the fire brigade they found the body of the frurdetmr in a room in the basement. There were lump wounds in his head. P.-rer MacDonnell was found dead in a hack room with his clothe? spread over ' his body. Joseph MacDonnell lay dead in another room. In the upper part of ! the mansion which was ablaze the firemen round the bodies of the two sisten burned to cinders. The outer door was barred. The fire apparently started in dilferent rooms on the srotind floor and ' -spread to the upper floors.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 137, 11 June 1926, Page 7
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