... following Thursday from shock consequent upon his injuries. During the case it transpired that the parents did not possess a fire guard and the jury, while returning a verdict of Accidental Death, generously handed over their fees to the father towards defraying ...

... got in front of the fire. Sidney Aimer, aged 14, brother of the last witness, said he was staying with his brother. He had not always lived with him. He was with the child on Friday morning. The deceased was leaning over the fire. He did not notice that ...

... at 5.15 p.m. on Friday last. Her two younger brothers were left with her. In the kitchen there was an ordinary grits with fire guard. Shortly after she hid left them to go op stairs witness heard berelia39, and on rwhing down She saw the Hai girl behind ...

... deceased was standing with her back to the fire. Witness twice asked her to go and fetch the fire guard. Suddenly witness noticed that her dress was alight at the back and told her to roll on the floor but she ran first to the window, without going out, and ...

... address, said that about a week before Christmas his father was left alone in the house in bed. He got out and fell on the fire guard, his face coaling in contact with the flames. On their return, they found he had got back into bed. He refused to see a ...

... mother of a child who had fallen into the fire and burnt itself to death Dr. Jackson let fall some gems of distilled wisdom. He remarked that women never ought to get married until they had provided a fire guard for their children. At this observation the ...

... category at all. Here there was a fire guard but the child, who was nine years of lege, was able to remove it. Having Just come downstairs without dressing in her bedroom, she removed the guard to get nearer the fire. Strange as it may appear at first ...

... was a firsguard, but deceased told her she took the win guard off to make op the fire, picked op a piece of paper to get • light and burnt herselt—The father of deceased said he I put the fire guard on before be went oat.—The mother added that • week before ...

... being left in a room alone without a guard in front of the fire. In the year 19054 there were no less than 2,522 children in England burnt to death through being left alone in a room where there was a fire without a guard. The Bill proposed to make that an ...

... burning truck from the other cars. On emerging from the Merstham tunnel it was noticed that one of the wagons was on fire. The guard immediately communicated with the driver, who stopped the train, which had to be done very carefully, owing to its weight ...

... The Guard's Story ; The fire-glow was shining on the faces of half a dozen boys and pirls and round the room, in the comfortable parlour of No. 16, Primrose-avenue, Mimwood, when my tale (a true story) begins. The time of year was October, the time of ...

... GUARDS' OFFICER SHOT. While a company of the 2nd Soots Guards were going through field firing oo the Pirbright ranges on Wednesday one of the officers fell. Me had been shot through the stomach. No Co. appears to know where the bullet cam* from. Medical ...