"MOST TERRIBLE SIGHT."
BOY PROBABLY CHOKED.
BRAVE NEIGHBOUR'S STORY.
(By Telegraph.—Sixwial to "Star.") CHRISTCHURCH, this day. "When my wife smashed a window I climbed into the house to try to get Raymond, but there was no hope of reaching him," said Mr. W. J. Deneen, a neighbour of the Kings. "There was terrible heat, and the flames drove me back. The fire was roaring and leaping through the house. I knew the boywas not in his room, and guessed that he must have staggered along the passage to his mother. He was a brave little chap. He may have gone to her room to warn her or to save her. I forced my way along the passage, but could not get into the bedroom, for it was like an inferno. "From where I wae standing I saw the most terrible sight any man could look upon. It was a small boy burning to death by his mother's bedside. And I was powerless. No man could have saved the boy. I believe he did not suffer agony. He must have been choked unconscious by the smoke before the flames reached him. "The ordeal was too much for me, and I could not do a great deal after I found my way out of the building. I was broken up." >
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 141, 16 June 1932, Page 7
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