FAMILY TRAGEDY
SEVEN PEOPLE DEAD. New York, Oct. 21. Walter Cavanagh and his six U lotherless children were asphyxia ted while sleeping in a threer earned flat. Ethel Cavanagh, aged ’ 17, kept house for her father In ■' reconstructing the tragedy the police believe that the girl rose • early and placed a pot ; of water on a gas stove, then fell asleep. The water boiled over and extm* I guiahad the flame, but, it 16 | thought, the gas , continued to esJ cape and suffocated the entire famI ily.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 10212, 24 October 1929, Page 4
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