FAMILY TRAGEDY
FATHER AND CHILDREN ASPHYXIATED ■’rnss Association —Py Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, October 22. A father and his six motherless children, who were sleeping in a three-room apartment, were asphyxiated in a curious manner. Ethel, aged .seventeen, kept house for her father, Walter Cavnnagh, and the police, in reconstructing the tragedy, found that Ethel rose early, placed a pot of water on tho gas stove, and then fell asleep. Tho water boiled over and extinguished the flame, but tiie gas continued to escape and suffocated tho entire family.—Australian Press Association.
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Evening Star, Issue 20313, 23 October 1929, Page 9
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90FAMILY TRAGEDY Evening Star, Issue 20313, 23 October 1929, Page 9
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