ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
TWQ :MENI BURNED TO .DEATH.
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! 'WHANOAREI, May 14. I Two imen named . Patrick. I>aley,. aged wSs;,years, arid Alfred .Carr,.- aged i<{J6 years, -mere' burned to 'death in a Tvhare in tthe ,'Puwera : gum*d;igging icamp, near V^hangarei, yesterday. 3)aley nvas seen . alive at daylight, when The'calldd aifcan. adjoimng-v-iiare rfor matches. Diggers, following the tnsual.'.custoin, -are:,away from camp :all the day., arid- on their return cne ;jo'f their number : maide the shocking [■(discovery-. ißoth Ideceased were "lying !in an open;fireplace, the1 bodies'beiiig !'badly chained. A large quantity idf j Esjuor was ttound on:the premises. "It ss, surmised ithat, both men, who lived fcegeffcher, (had had. a'-.• drinking'-bailJ't, aotd while intoxieate'd: fell-off-the foirm fesrand in fijo-ilt of rthe fireplace.t:Thej?e m&m no sigESfjof any ..straggle.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 112, 14 May 1914, Page 5
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125ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES. Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 112, 14 May 1914, Page 5
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