THE FIRE TRAGEDY

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8738, 21 May 1914, Page 5

THE FIRE TRAGEDY

MAN’S BODY' IDENTIFIED

The male victim of the Courtenay place fire tragedy has been identified. Yesterday evening, at 6 o’clock, two men, James Young and James Greennell called at the morgue,, where the remains lay, and identified them as belonging to George White, a flaxmiller, known more familiarly as “Yorkic.” Deceased was a native of Bradford, England, and a roan about thirty-eight years of age. Young states that he met deceased in Palmerston North on Friday afternoon. He had known him previously about ten months ago in Ohakuno, where they worked together on the railway line. Both of them left Palmerston North on Saturday morning by' train, arriving in Wellington at twenty past 12. They knocked about together till 6 o’clock. He did not see him again. Deceased informed him that he was working at a flaxmill just outside Palmerston. He (Young) did not think that deceased had any relatives in New Zealand.

A diary was picked up in the room where the bodies were found, giving details of deceased’s movements up to the date of his death.