In re Clifford

Woodside, J.,

Shortly after midnight on April 6, 1945, motorists passing through the Borough of Dauphin, discovered that the house occupied by George W. Clifford and family was in flames. They stopped their ears, blew their horns, called and rapped on the doors. Not until after they broke some downstairs windows were they able to arouse any of the occupants of the house. By that time there was no escape from the second floor except through the windows. Kenneth Lee Clifford, an 18-month-old baby, was dropped from the window by his mother, and caught by one of the motorists. George W. Clifford,…