TRAGIC MISHAP
MAN FATALLY BUKNED
WIFE FOUND INSENSIBLE
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, This Day.
Pathetic circumstances surround the accidental death of James Kimm and the serious condition of Ms wife, of 39, Grange road, Mount Eden. The elderly couple, both of whom were aged 78, fell asleep in the sittingroom before a portable gas heater on Friday evening, and were found insensible early on Saturday morning. Kimm received fatal burns through his foot slipping practically into the heater, and his wife is in a semi-, conscious condition at the hospital. The> couple were found by a neighbour ten hours later.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 12, 14 July 1930, Page 8
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