BURNED TO DEATH.
AGED COUPLE AND GIRL. TRAGIC FIRE 'IN TASMANIA. (Received Juno S. 8.25 p.m.) HOBART, Juno 8. Three lives were lost in a fire which destroyed an eight-roomed weatherboard house nt Pontville, 17 miles north of Hobart, early this morning. The victims wero William Sidney, aged 84, Emma Sidney, aged 80, and their granddaughter, Jean I inlayson. Tho fire was noticed by a baker who was going to work at 2 a.m. Mis. Finlayson escaped with three of her children but tho others were trapped.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20894, 9 June 1931, Page 9
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