TRAGEDY IN LIVERPOOL.
SIX-YEAR-OLD BOY BURNED TO DEATH. BROTHER LIGHTS STRAW IN CRATE. United Fress Association.—By Electrie Telecrrauh—Copyright. (Received Friday, 8 p.m.) LONDON, August 8. A six-year-old boy, Percy Morsland, residing in Liverpool, was incinerated before his mother’s eyes while playing with his eight-yeer-old brother Harold. Percy climbed into a straw-filled crate seven feet high. Harold lighted the straw and flames shot up. Harold made frantic efforts to rescue Percy, but the crate was too high. He then called hrs mother, who also was unable to reach her son. A man was hastily summoned from an adjoining shop. He flung himself at the crate, which was overturned, but he was unable to reach Percy owing to the heat and the boy was dead when the fire brigade arrived.—(Australian Press Association —United Service.)
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Wairarapa Age, 10 August 1929, Page 5
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