A PATHETIC TRAGEDY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1081, 29 March 1913, Page 4

A PATHETIC TRAGEDY.

A WIFE’S PAINFUL DEATH.

Recently a young married woman, the wife of Edward Partridge, farmer, at Buccrabendinni, a few miles irom Bowraville, was burnt to death.

Mrs Partridge was engaged in the kitchen cleaning the stove. The fire was burning in an open fireplace dose at hand, and while moving round the stove her dress came in contact with the fire. The woman was very soon enveloped in flames, and all efforts to put out the. fire were ineffectual, the only assistance being from a young brother, aged 14 years.

The husband and two men working at some distance from the house were attracted by the screams, but before the husband could reach her the clothing was literally burnt off her body.

The husband carried her into, another room, and< while the neighbours did all possible to alleviate her suffering a message brought Dr. Steele, of Bowraville. The case was hopeless, and Mrs Partridge died within three hours. The circumstances surrounding the case are made the more painful by the fact that a young child only six weeks old, and two other children are left motherless.