SUTTEE.
GIRL WIDOW'S DEVOTION. ("Timc»"-Sydney "Sun" Special Cable.) CALCUTTA, January 26. A Bengalee clerk died, and his widow, a girl of fourteen, nrepared a funeral pyro in a corner of their bedroom unknown to anybody. She then saturated her clothing with kerosene, ignited it, and lay down upon the pyre. The mass blazed up around her, but she lay unflinching in spite of her terrible suffering. * A female relative heard the crackling of the flamos, rushed in and pulled the girl off the pyre, and quenched the flames, despite tho protests of the widow, who died of the burns.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14886, 28 January 1914, Page 9
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99SUTTEE. Press, Volume L, Issue 14886, 28 January 1914, Page 9
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