FAMILY TRAPPED IN BLAZING HOUSE.
FOUR WOMEN BURN TO DEATH IN COTTAGE.
(United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received August 22, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, August 21. Robert Lockhart, his wife, two sisters and two daughters were seated at supper in a cottage at Dunshalt, Scotland, when a motor-cycle he had been repairing in the lobby burst into flames, .vockhart was unable to open the door, and the window was too small. The family were thus trapped, and Lockhart’s two daughters and two sisters were burned to death, while the parents sustained serious injuries.— United Service.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18547, 22 August 1928, Page 9
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