NEARLY CAUGHT BY FIRE.
W.QMAN:S\ HEROJC STRUGGLE, SAVES THREE LIVES. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) AUCKLAND, Sept." 20. Mrs. A. Payne, with two children, aged 24 months and 2 months, had a narrow escape from burning when ker house at Newmarket was destroyed early this morning. After struggling to the front door it was. so warped with the heat that she couldn't open it. With a grip on heir children she battled her way down the passage through dense smoke to the dining* room, and fought her way to a window, where she dropped the children on the ground outside as the flames overtook her.- v
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Thames Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 17695, 20 September 1929, Page 5
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