YORK PLACE FIRE

Evening Star, Issue 19941, 10 August 1928, Page 8

YORK PLACE FIRE

INQUEST OH VICTIMS The inquest was concluded this afternoon ou Ellen Mann and Horace Mann, the elderly sister and brother, who lost their lives in the lire which occurred m their homo on the night of July 9. Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M., sat as coroner. Sargeant Wade watched the inquiry for tho police, and Mr A. E. Gascoigne represented the Mann family. Sergeant Wado slated that Mary Jane Mann, the sister who survived, was now an invalid, and was unable to attend. However, sho had given Constable Mciklojohn a statement ou August 6. In accordance with the statement as read by the constable, the evidence was to the elfcct that witness had on tho night of the lire lighted a candle with the object ol getting some medicine from a small table, and sho thought that inadvertently she had sot a curtain near the bed alight. On noticing tho lire she called to her brother, who was sleeping upstairs. Ho carried her out, and then wont into tho house. She did not see him again. She had been ill with influenza. Tho Coronci ' said he could only find that Horace Mann had been accidentally burned to death and that Ellen Mann had died from shock following burns accidentally received. It was an extremely distressing accident.