A SHOCKING FATALITY.
."-..■, - , — o : MAN DIES from BURNS. FORKING WITH KEROSENE LAMP. •'■ [Si 3TSLBGBAJPH.— ASSOCIATION-! ' :'' TiiiATtU, Thursday ' IvoJi Ai.i'EN' Wilson, insurance agent, mot : bis 'Jcat'n in a painful manner last night. ' 'Ho was working at his books in his home ■';': * and was using a. kerosene lamp. At about JO p.m. the neighbours heard cries and • groans, and on going to the house found the room to be on fire. Wilson was lying unconscious on the ' "■-'■ floor. His clothes had been burned off and the body was shockingly burned. He , died in a few hours. ~*)", .The deceased leaves a wife and child. Jlrs. Wilson happened to be out at the ; .time- find came homo just as her husband ' was brought out of tho house. 'J\v "■ An inquest was opened and was subse- ■' quently adjourned.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15061, 2 August 1912, Page 7
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133A SHOCKING FATALITY. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15061, 2 August 1912, Page 7
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