BURNT TO DEATH.
MIDDLE-AGED BACHELOR LOSES
HIS LIFE
HELP XEAIi AT HAND
(Ter Press Association.)
Wellington, December 9. Thomas Jenkins, aged 45, lost his life early this morning through being suffocated by smoke during the destruction by lire of a four-roomed house at Lower Hutt, where he lived alone. The fire brigade arrived promptly, but it was not knowij that anyone was in the house till the body was found in. a bedroom. Jenkins evidently tried to make his escape, but was suffocated.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 99, 9 December 1911, Page 6
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83BURNT TO DEATH. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 99, 9 December 1911, Page 6
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