A Mysterious Occurrence.
[PBB PbEBB ASSOCIATION.] DUNEDIN, Oct. 4. A vory strango occurronco is reported to have taken placo in Mosgiol. About 1 a.m. on Tuesday, Mm Burnett, tho wife of the constable, feeling restloßs, woko her husband, and asked him to take v leok through the house, as ehe felt rather uneasy. Burnett rose, and looked into tbo different rooms, and fiually into the room whero lfiy the corpse of the lato Constable O'Neill. As ho opened the door, he saw a blaze and quickly perceived the room to be on firo. Ho procured some buckets ol' water, and soon quenched the flames. How the fire originated is a mystery. A candle hnd been left burning in the room, but it wqb on the table, while the fire was on the floor in a corner of the room. A portmantoau was burned, and the flame from it had charred the table underneath, but the top of the table showed no sign of fire. There was a sheet over tho coffin, but the flame had not rcaohod it.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 4508, 5 October 1882, Page 3
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178A Mysterious Occurrence. Star (Christchurch), Issue 4508, 5 October 1882, Page 3
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