BURNS PROVE FATAL
Man Injured At Party (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, August 16. A man who received severe burns to the body when his costume caught alight at a fancy dress party on August 8 died as a result of his injuries in Middlemore Hospital at 850 p.m. on Saturday. He was Charles Thomas Barnett, aged 33, insurance agent, married, with six young children, of Onehunga.
On Thursday, a young man was arrested and appeared in the Magistrate’s Court at Auckland on a charge that he did cause actual bodily harm to Barnett under circumstances that if death had occurred he would have been guilty of manslaughter. He was remanded until August 27.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28975, 17 August 1959, Page 10
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