FATAL FIRE IN WHARE.
MAN LIVING ALONE.
EVIDENCE AT INQUEST.
£BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] / WELLINGTON. Monday.
Living alone in a wharc at Akatarawa, XO miles from Upper Hutt, John Neil Anderson, labourer, aged 48, received fatal burns as the result of his shirt catching fire early on the morning of Friday, September 18. Surprised at his non-appearance that morning sumc friends who lived a short distance away visited his whare and found him with his face and arms severely burned. He was removed to hospital but died there last
Monday. At the inquest Dr. Collier said when Anderson was admitted to hospital ho told her he had awakened feeling cold aud had lit a big fire in an open fireplace to warm himself. He said he then went to sleep on the floor. Soon afterwards he woke to find his shirt on fire. As he was unable to get it off he had to roll on the floor until the flames w«re smothered. The coroner returned a verdict of death as the result of accidental burns.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20990, 29 September 1931, Page 12
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