DEATH FROM BURNS

Evening Star, Issue 10408, 1 September 1897, Page 3

DEATH FROM BURNS

Mr Coroner Carew and a jury of six held an inquest at the hospital this afternoon on the body of Frederick Thomas Wood, aged twenty-one, who. died in the iDotitubion yesterday from fatal burns. George Wood, his brother, in his evidence, said that he and the deceased had lived together in a four-roomed house at the Upper Junction. They went to bed at ten o’clock on Sunday sight, and at about three o’clock next morning witness, who slept in a separate rcom to his brother, was awakened by a strong smell of smoke. He jumped out of bed and opened the bedroom door leading into the kitchen, where the smoke was very thick. He immediately closed the door and jumped out through the window. He went quickly round the house, and smashed the glass of the back window. The window was 4ft from the ground, and ha could not get it up. then smashed in the back door with an axe. On going inside he tripped over his brother, who was lying on the. floor. Ho got hold of him and dragged Him out by the leg. His brother was delirious, and was badly burned about the hands and face. He was removed to the hospital. After further evidence a verdict Death from burns ” was returned.

Mr Justice Edwards dismissed the appeal of Oudby Brothers, of Lower Hutt, against a judgment for £35 secured by W. H. Bussell, ‘Hansard' reporter, against them for damage done to himself and bicycle owing to a collision with a truck, with £7 7s costs.

Athletics at Mataura will lose a warm patron in Mr A. Keogh, who, on retiring from the management of the Mataura Paper Mill, in tends, to return to England. A Socialist orator addressing some Wellington Political League women said: “Even the wedding rings you women wear are emblems of your slavery.” School Inspector : “ Explain the line ‘And eyes spake love to eyes which spake again.’” Smart Boy: “ The men winked' at the women, and the women winked back at the men.”—Exchange.