A Singular Fatality.
■v [pee press association. I Dunrdin, October 10. An inquest was held at Henley touching the death of Mrs Ann Kenny, wife of a farmer. She was sitting by the fire with her daughter, when they heard a noise in an adjoining room. On entering Mrs Kenny saw that a candlo had set fire to the wall close to the heads of two children sleeping there. The fire was put out by her and her daughter. The latter went opt for a bucket of wate?: and when she returned she fouud her mother had dropped down dead. The medical evidence was to the effect that death was probably due to syncope, and a verdict to that offect was returned.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 91, 11 October 1894, Page 2
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122A Singular Fatality. Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 91, 11 October 1894, Page 2
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