DOMESTIC TRAGEDY
A youth living at Bradford, Yorkshire, should have been wakened at seven o'clock on a recent morning to go to the mill where ho works. He slept on until eight, when he hurriedly dressed and went to see why he was not called.
Ho found his parents' room full of gas. Ho roused his mother with difficulty, but his father, Thomas Connor French, aged 43, a window cleaner, was dead. A daughter in an adjoining room was rescued and recovered Quickly. Mrs. French said that her husband must have got up in tho night, lighted tho gas while getting a drink of water, and probably did not turn the gae off properly.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22356, 29 February 1936, Page 3 (Supplement)
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114DOMESTIC TRAGEDY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22356, 29 February 1936, Page 3 (Supplement)
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