PREPARED HER FUNERAL PYRE.
WIDOW OF FOURTEEN JOINS HER HUSBAND. . By. Telegraph--Press A-seoeia-tion-Cooyriglu Calcutta r January 26. A Babu having died, his widow, a jjirl of fourteen years, prepared a funeral pyre in a corner of lisr bedroom, unknown to anybody, saturated her clothing with kerosene, ignited it, and lay on tho pyre. The mass blazed up. A female relative heard the. crackling of and pulled the. girl off and quenched tho flames despite the protests of the girl, , who died from burns.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1969, 28 January 1914, Page 7
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83PREPARED HER FUNERAL PYRE. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1969, 28 January 1914, Page 7
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