A Little Hero.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 28 March 1891, Page 2

A Little Hero.

At an inquest held into the circumstances attending the death of Henry Janies Bestow, dged g jreirs; the sori : of a c^biriet-iddker^i^diii^ at 7. Hawkesie^tdrrace,. Walthamstow, Jessie Brietqw, (the mother) stated that oh Tuesday vrieti. 7 shY left her house about five o'clock td go on an errand, returning, ft little before siit o'clock; SHd natl Uh die deceased and his sister, aged Bjyears8 j years alone in the room. On her return she found that both children had been burnt, The deceased said his sister had climbed on to :a chair, to .reach, a small paraffin lamp! which hung over "tne Injantelpiece, and in doing so upsefe it. Her clothes caught fire, and he tore them off her, and laid her on the bed but, while lifting her, his clothes became ignited, and it tobk^Him" ft ltittg while to tear them off. He managed however to do so, and when the witness entered the room she found him very much burnt. She conveyed him to the German hospital in a cftb. The girl Was alive and doing w^ell, —The Coroner: it is A 'am.e&Sftt The little fellow was tjilite a iieify^ The motHer; He did hk best fe? Mf c ' his sister. — The juiy returned^ verdict of accidental death. . •