WIDOW’S GRIEF
ATTEMPT TO COMMIT “SUTTEE.”
United Presß Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)
(Received this day at 10.10 a.m.) CALCUTTA, August 28,
Overcome with grief at the death of her husband,' aged 24, a girl, aged at Diamond Harbour, Calcutta, attempted to commit “suttee”. She threw herself on the blazing pyre, clinging to the burning body of her husband. Mourners rescued her senseless, and extensively burned.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1933, Page 5
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65WIDOW’S GRIEF Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1933, Page 5
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