BURNT TO DEATH.

Evening Star, Issue 4150, 15 June 1876, Page 3

BURNT TO DEATH.

A girl named Ada Josephine Nealan was burnt to-death at Parramatta on the 16th ult., under the following singular circumstances (says the ‘ Sydney Morning Herald ’). She and her father were at work in the garden attached to their home. The wattles had been cut down in the paddock to let the grass grow, and were being burnt to get rid of them. The girl gathered up some of. the dry brambles into a heap, and then went and got a lighted bush from the fire to light -them with. As she was going she dropped the ; lighted bush, and was picking up some more brambles when she stepped so as to bring her dress, which was of the lightest material, into contact with the burning bush, and it caught fire. Her three younger sisters instantly tried to knock the fire out and to throw her down on the ground, but she would not let them, and kept on her feOt. Her father was running towards her and she went to meet him, but before he reached her her clothes were burnt off her back. He was trying to brush the fire off her when she .twisted herself away from him, and ran and plunged into a waterhole. The ’ bole was not a deep one, and she was got out, the fire being extinguished, and; was carried home, where she died next day.

Query.-—Every how and then a' “ safe ” robbery is reported. But if the robber is caught, what sort of robbery is it thetJSH •At the end of an Indiana marriage ceremony recently the bride advanced gracefully to the clergyman and requested him to announce the hymn, “ This is the way I long have sought.”