MAN FATALLY BURNED
Br Telegraph.—Press Associatio*. Napier, April 27. As the result of a fire in a worker’s hut at the Public Work’s camp, at Kaiwaka, a man named William Murphy, a labourer, was fatally burned. After the Hames had. been somewhat subdued, two men entered the hut and dragged Murphy from his bed. He was frightfully burned, and after first aid has been rendered, an endeavour was made to bring him to Napier, but he expired on the journey. It is surmised the deceased fell off to sleep, leaving a candle burning on the table.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 181, 28 April 1924, Page 8
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