FATAL FIRE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 185, 12 August 1911, Page 2

FATAL FIRE.

WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH

[press association."] 7 AUCKLAND, Aug. 11. Mrs Julia Kelly, an old age pensioner, 70 years of age, was burned to death in a fire in a six-roomed house in Upper Queen Street, which she occupied with her son Andrew Kelly. The latter was dragged out of bed. The brigade arrived and found Mrs Kelly on the floor N in her bedroom dead. The body was badly burned. Apparently the fire originated in the room in which she slept. The police have arrested Andrew Kelly on a charge of drunkenness. Later. The fire in the Kelly's house vv^s discovered by two young men. Ono gave the «larm, and the other entered the back door. The flames were burning fiercely, and the rooms were densely filled with smoke. Andrew Kelly, a laborer by occupation, aged 40, was found in a back bedroom on the bed fully dressed: He wan awakened with difficulty unit dragged from the burning building. When interrogated he was understood to say there was no one else ii the house. The flames ware now belching from all parts of the building. When the fire brigade arrivwl it was reported 'that Mrs Kelly was in the house. Water was poured en the front bedroom until the firemen gained an entrance and found th^ woman lying behind tlio bcdroo;a door dead. The neighbors state tliar. i some disturbance was heard in the house last evening after Andrew Kelly was seen to enter, luil, beyond! I commenting on the natter no actloij j was taken. Deceased had been nurs- | ing for five years, and w;;.s regarded ;as a kind-hearted and estimable j woman.

In reference to the cablegram stating that a hitch had occurred in tho second deposit of the Foswell-Barry match, Messrs Siefert, of Palmerstoii brothers of Mr Geo. Reifert,. Fogwell's backer, cabled to London this "morning forwarding: the deposit and removing the hitch.