FIRE TRAGEDY
OUTBREAK IN ARTISTS HOME
FOUR PEOPLE DEAD (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) BOSTON, May 7. (Received May 8, at 9 p.m.) Four persons, including the mother and 14-year-old daughter of Mr John Lavalle, the internationally known portrait painter, were burned to death or killed in leaping as fire swept the artist's home to-day while he was in New York at the opening of an exhibition of his pictures. Seven other persons were injured, several critically, including Mr Lavalle's six-year-old daughter. The dead include two housemaids.
The artist's ten-year-old son leapt to safety. Mrs Lavalle was absent visiting her father's home in Cincinnati.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22566, 9 May 1935, Page 7
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105FIRE TRAGEDY Otago Daily Times, Issue 22566, 9 May 1935, Page 7
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