SHOCKING TRAGEDY.
WOMAN DIES ERO.M BURNS
(Australian Press Association)
SYDNEY, January 21
A terrible culmination to a series of .misfortunes came yesterday when .Mrs Blanche Partridge was burnt to death. A ■fortnight previously .Mr Partridge and his wife lost their heme and all their possessions when a Gusli fire swept the property. A esterdav the woman was boiling clothes in a kerosene tin when her clothes caught alight and blazed fiercely . Site ran screaming round the yard until her husband extinguished the flames. She died a lew hours lale in the hospital.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 January 1929, Page 5
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92SHOCKING TRAGEDY. Hokitika Guardian, 24 January 1929, Page 5
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