FATAL FIRE
WOMAN DIES FROM BURNS
(By.Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHBISTCHUECH, This Day. A fatal fire occurred at the residence of Mr. M. J. Gresson, a wellknown solicitor,..in Fcndaltoa Road, this morning, -when-his wife was trapped in a burning washhouse. She received severe burns and died a few minutes after being rescued by her daughter, •' • The late Mrs. Gresson was 40 years of age, a sister of Doctor Hamilton Gould, and a member of a well-known Canterbury family. She had been in poor health for a number of years. Apparently she went into the washhouse to attend to a fire in the copper. The first person 'to' discover that the washhouse was 'on fire, was Miss Bridget Gresson, who dashed in among thick smoke and found her mother lying on the floor with her clothes in flames. She dragged her ; mother out and extinguished the flames, but Mrs. Gresson died in a few minutes. The fire brigade preveuted the flames spreading to the house, a large twostoreyed building. Mrs. Gresson was a. niece of Mr. George Gould. She is survived by her husband, two sons, and one daughter.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 58, 10 March 1933, Page 9
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186FATAL FIRE Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 58, 10 March 1933, Page 9
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