SHOCKING AFFAIR.
A FAMILY BUENED TO DEATH. [FBOM OOE COBBESPO-fDENT.] [By Telegraph from the Bl —t.J BRISBANE, July 23. A rerort wa_ yesterday received by the police at Bomo, to the effect that a family had been burnt to death at Mackadilla, twenty miles from Bomo. From the partie— ars to hand, it appears that Mr John Brandon Howard, with bis wife and child, a girl named Florence, retired to bed early yesterday morning. At about two o'clock, Howard's building wa_ seen to be on fire, and it was burnt almost to the ground. No traces of the inmates could be seen until later in the morning, when nothing but charred skulls could be found. It is supposed that the fire was caused by the defective construction of the fireplace, and that the sleepers were rendered insensible by the smoke and burned to death-
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Press, Volume XLV, Issue 7132, 31 July 1888, Page 5
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