MODERN NEROS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10587, 18 October 1910, Page 1

MODERN NEROS.

Ki ~- OPeb- Pbess Assoc&iiW.) J S- »' \ r Gisbbrne, October 117. -"{At half-past ten to-jaight a fire tbroke r 4ut"iin a four-roomed cottage in' Grey lifreet,-' owned', by "iftef ;mn^~Gaptain TCucker, and -occupied by-a<welUfciiowrt character nanied Joseph Geddes and "his-Twife- When the'fire was discovered his wife were, oblivious -of ."their"danger, and were engaging in a ■ drunken quarrel inside, with 1 the'doors locked. A passer-by burst m the door 'and dragged the occupants to the road, where they continued fighting! until "both were arrested. The house ssnd all !>he contents were completely destroyed.