GHASTLY DISCOVERY—A MAN BURNED.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 270, 15 March 1877, Page 2

GHASTLY DISCOVERY—A MAN BURNED.

The worst, however, remains to be told. As soon as the fire "was fairly extinguished, Captain Sinclair, according to custom, left four of his men in charge of the premises, and went back to the Brigade station. Returning a few minutes later he heard a report that SOME PERSON TTaT) BEEN LEFT IN THE BUILDING when the other inmates had cleared out, and, accompanied by Firemen Wicks and Williden, he the ruins. As they went along the raked over a lot of debris, and presently they beKjme aware of a curious smell, which increased

is they poked at the heap beWPJ h f we t that Wicks was seized WPII One of the men suggested ilPlknf i <io>' had probably been burnt with the runwv *>ut Mr. Sinclair said that could scarcely be the caa«, as he had seen fh» do/' M»nsfinsf to the house ahve and .i™. tk.fi™. AJfTWA'CKD wtt« A ttORRtBt.G *ry Pt»!tON\ the exploits quickly removed some more of the blackened heap, when the melancholy cause of the odor became apparent. Reclining on his left side, and scarcely diatinguisliabte from the common ruin, was the arm and elbow of a human body. Speedily removing the surrounding ashes, the head and shoulders were brought to view, and ere many minutes all that remained of the unfortunate man was placed by the firemen on a sheet of corrugated iron, X DTMIJRM, t-ROC ESS COS WAS B'ORttEO, and the hideous arid shapeless heap of oleined bones and scorched flesh that represented what an hour previously was a living being was conveyed to the Hospital. All attempts at identification were of no avail until this morning, at about twelve o'clock, when one of the witnesses tn attendance at the inquest 0 u the Chinaman recognised the mutilated fragments as the remains of a man ©E twenty years of age JTA.UMP C>ANttM, BARRETT. Deceased was a native of Cork, was unmarried, and had been three years in the Colony. El is onty relations in this place arc a sister residing in Port Chalmers and a brother at the Taieri. The unfortunate young fellow had only come to Mrs. ftt'duslcey's on Saturday last, and had, we believe, previously lived in Mutton's Caledonian Hotel in Walker-street. He had been used to farming work, and had left the Caledonian Hotel in search of employment.