FATAL FIRE.
WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH. A lire attended with fatal consequences broke out last night in a six-roomed ■ house in Alexandra Street, Palmerston North, occupied hy Mrs Ereemaa. After much strenuous work the Jlumes were got under, only the shaky skeleton of the house remaining. Meanwhile it had been remarked that nothing had been seen of Mrs Ereeman, and fears were expressed that she might have been suffocated in her bed. All doubts on the matter were cleared up at about 1.30 a.m., when the firemen were able to remove the debris and enter the house. In the passage they found the charred body of a woman in a kneeling position. A remnant of a nightgown and a pair of slippers were found on the corpse. She had evidently arisen from bed and had been attempting to escape down the passage when she was overcome by the smoke. The cause of I lie fire is a mys(erv.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1710, 10 May 1917, Page 3
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158FATAL FIRE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1710, 10 May 1917, Page 3
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