BODY IN FLAMES.
MARRIED MAN'S FATE.
RESCI'K IMPOSSIBLE
(By Telegraph.— Press Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, Thursdav
A man. believed to Ik; Mr. Augustus Trcvitt Hamilton, married, aged about ">O. war; hurtled to death in a house at Spiinjrston South to night. The house,
a wooden one containing six room?. wa« situated about half a mile from Dacre's store. Springston South, and was occupied by Mr. Hamilton, his wife and a boy a.sed four.
Ihe house was seen to be on fire at six o clock. Constable Fallon was intormed and immediately went to the scene, and noticed the charred bodv of a man in the blazinjr building Because 0. the intense heat and the lack of water lie was unable to recover the body from the flames.
Mr. Hamilton was the only person in the house during the day, his wife and child Imvinjt Jione out in the mornint I here a.,, two other member of th"e family, a n irl iIW<I lr am , R |ioy l-». I.llt they did not reside at the' house a* they are working away from home '
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 128, 2 June 1939, Page 10
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