Burned to Death.
At midnight a fire broke out iu Elliot street, Auckland, in a two-story block ; Mr. J. H. Holmes, the scenic artist of the Opera House slept up stairs, and as he had not been seen about, a search was made upstairs, when the nude body of the poor old man was found lying on its back- The skin had peeled off in sections, though the body was not scorched or burnt. An examination of the premises by Detectives Hughes and Walker went to show that Holmes had probably Mftt reading in bed, and had fallen leaving the candle lighted. Some charred magazines were found near his pillow, and when roused by the fire he had evidently made his way to the back room instead of to the staircase, with his trousers in his hand (as they were found in his clenched grasp), when he got overcome with smoke and sufi'oeaciou.
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1665, 26 January 1885, Page 3
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153Burned to Death. Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1665, 26 January 1885, Page 3
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