FIRE FATALITY.
CHILD SUFFOCATED
TRAPPED IN MOTOR GARAGE
DESPERATE RESCUE EFFORT. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) TAUPIRI, this day. A sad burning fatality occurred between seven and eight o'clock thi> morning, when Ross Murphy, aged :>.'. years, the younger son of Mr, Arthur Murphy, of Great South Road, Taupiii, was trapped in a burning garage.
The child's mother was alarmed by smoke issuing from the motor car parage, where the child had been playing". She called for help, and neighbours tried to get into the garage, the doors of which were closed.
The rescuers were driven back by smoke and flames, but they tore down a part of a side Avail, through which they recovered the child's body.
A doctor was summoned, and he found that death had been caused by suffocation.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 155, 5 July 1933, Page 7
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