Shocking Occurrence
(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Dunedin, This Day. A three year«old child of Andrew Blues, storeman, was burned to death last night. The mother is in gaol, undergoing a sentence for larceny. Two child* ren were being cared for by a hired girl, twelve years old, and before leaving at 9 30, she placed the baby in a cradle a few feet from the fire. An hour later she saw smoke issuing and gave an alarm, but Blues, who had been drinking, re« (used to allow the neighbors to eater the bouse. Eventually, Victor Kobershaw did so, rescuing the child, but it was so burnt that it died at mid-might.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 58, 3 November 1892, Page 2
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110Shocking Occurrence Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 58, 3 November 1892, Page 2
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