BURNT TO DEATH.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10673, 24 January 1911, Page 4

BURNT TO DEATH.

(Per Press Association.)

oßtorua, January 23.. i Mr William Gordon,- a" well-kiiowii and highly respected resident o'£ these parts, met with, a strange: and;tragic end, evidently on ...Saturday, jp.orriing. About 9 ocloclc on Saturday morning deceased was found absent from his usual post at the staible at the 40-mile ">"ff on the mail and passenger coach road between, Rotoriia and Taupb.'Mr Graham,-'motorman for the Mail Cottrpany, observed that the hut irt which deceased resided had, been' ibnrned down. On making. investigations,..-Mir Gfa'hanr'discovered several horses harvnessed in the stable an.dSome?;not Haxr nessed. He had his suspicions aroused," aivd. search was; : made.'. ~':'At the burnt building,,under.:the debris', was found the femain's£of.thJE deceased'; Evidently; -nis.thorSesvfclie :"dece*ase"d sap/ hisihut on fixe, and',, rushing the object'-- of * saving-: some:':: effects, rnmsfc by.vtha .flames 1 or oy thej-xobf faßing, and was .burned to death.":-;-Tlie deceased was a- muchrespected man,.'and, had' been in')the employ of the Royal Mail Company, for the past two or three, years'.as stableman at the-place where he met Jiis untimely end. He was singloj and about 53 years of age.'.' An inquest will bo held at Taupo- oh Tuesday. i ': ■