Death from Drink.
• , +-... — •■ . .- . A widow, nant^ed. Murphy died in the Northern hospital,' Liverpool!, recently, from terrible injuries. She £knd two children occupied au attic destituteof everything except a stniw mattress. The woman went home druDk on Saturday ni^h't, and a Hjrhted candle foil from the wall on the matuess setting: nre to it. The shrieks of the children, brought help, but the woman was found literally roasted in places, and almost skinless her clothes beiuj; burut and the i mattress consumed.
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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 101, 8 May 1883, Page 2
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81Death from Drink. Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 101, 8 May 1883, Page 2
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