DEATHS IN A FIRE.
TRAGEDY AT MAIDSTONE. FOUR" PEOPLE SUFFOCATED. Times Cable. LONDON. Jan. 21. An outbreak of firo was noticed by a sentry in a house opposite tho bai lacks at Maidstone, at midnight. The soldiers in barracks helped tho fire brigade, the chief officer of which ascended a ladder to the upper storey of the burning building, broke a window and entered a bedroom.
There ho discovered that George James, aged 47, his wife, aged 45, their daughter, aged 13. and their son, aged five, had been suffocated.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20779, 23 January 1931, Page 11
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