THE WELLINGTON MYSTERY
Wellington, November 18. Rumours w-r- current in town yesterday to the eff ct that a woman had been rece vod in the Wellington Hosphal w th hur; s similar t > those sustained by the man Andrew-, who died recently It was sai 1 that t:iey had been sustained at about the same time and in the same h uae. The supposition that the two cases are connected turns out to he incorrect. It appears t-hat the patient now in the Hospital is a domestic servant named Margaret Grirasrono, a ed thirty, who was employed at Smith’s Ponrua Hotel. Porirna. She ate'es that one evening last week a gust of wind blow the wiidow blinds of her bedroom against a caudle, and while she was extinguishing the hlszs the aletve of her dross caught fire, and her right arm was burnt from the elbow to the top shoulder, Her injarlts are not serious. Her statement is corrobrated by others who were at the hot 1. and it is disbelieved that she has any connection yvitli the Andrews affur
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1413, 22 November 1886, Page 2
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180THE WELLINGTON MYSTERY Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1413, 22 November 1886, Page 2
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