FATALLY BURNED
CENTENARIAN’S END,
SYDNEY, Friday
A message from Bourke says that Bourke’s most picturesque figure, Gul Mahomet, an Afghan reputed to be 109 years of age, fell in a fire while asleep at his home to-day. 1-Ie was too weak to help himself, but a friend, Dye Khan, who is about 80, rushed into the room, dragged the centenarian from the fire, and managed to beat out the flames. Mahomet, however, died in hospital.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 21 July 1934, Page 5
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