Little Girl Burned to Death.
THE INQUEST. Auckland, Dec. 28. Tlae Coroner lidd an inquest to day concerning the death of tha little girl Doris Evelyn McCarten, who succumbed to injuries sustained though her clothes taking lire on Wednesday last at a house at Otahuhu. Daniel McCarten, an unqje of deceased said the girl was sent with others to a shop. Shottly afterwards the other children came back saying Dorris’s clothes were on fire. When he arrived Dr Powlcy was dressing the child’s wounds. The girl said to witness, “A man ‘threw a match on me.” She did not say who the man was. Dr Walsh said the girl remarked at the hospital that she “must have got a match on her,” but she did not appear to know who threw it. Dr Rowley’s letter to him stated that the child was set on fire, apparently by a carelessly thrown match. She died on the following morning. This was the third child of the family that had been treated in Ihe hospital. Sergeant Carroll said Dr Rowley, if called, would say that the child said to him, “It was unfair for a man to thiow a match on me. Sergeant Carroll said he would like the point further investigated. The inquest was adjourned till January 9th.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3737, 3 January 1907, Page 4
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216Little Girl Burned to Death. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3737, 3 January 1907, Page 4
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