TRAGIC FIRE
FOUR PERSONS LOSE THEIR LIVES United Press Association—By Electric Tel egraph—Copyright (Received May 8, 7 p.m.) BOSTON, May 7. Four persons, including the mother and the fourteen-year-old daughter of John Lavalle, the internationally known portrait painter, were burned to death or killed in leaping as a 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 Lavalle’s six-year-old daughter. The dead include two housemaids. The artist’s ten-year-old son leapt to safety. Lavalle’s wife was absent visiting her father’s home in Cincinati.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20103, 9 May 1935, Page 9
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102TRAGIC FIRE Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20103, 9 May 1935, Page 9
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