TASMANIAN TRAGEDY.
GIRL BURNT TO DEATH.
.OVERCOME WHILE SHE SLEPT.
SYDNEY, March 20
While her mother a,nd father were attending a dance, 300 yards away, on Saturday night,. Dora Webb, aged 3, was burnt to death at Sprlnfleld, Tasr mania. Springfield is four miles from Scottsdale, Webb being a farmer in the district. .
When the fire, alarm was given the mother and father rushed away from the dance, and could discern .1,11 e figure of the. child in the bed. But the house was a mass of flames, and they were forced to sta.nd impotent and w'atcii the baby perish. After the fire had subsided somewhat the body was recovered, terribly burned. Another child, Nodt aged 11, was nowhere to be 1 found, and it was thought that-lie, too, had been Consumed in the terrible fire, when he was found wandering, half dazed, in the bush . He said that they had not been playing with matches, but that he woke suddenly to find flames licking at his bed and he ran outside.-
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4956, 26 March 1926, Page 3
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172TASMANIAN TRAGEDY. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4956, 26 March 1926, Page 3
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