WOMAN BURNT TO DEATH
TIMARU TRAGEDY. Timaru, June 7. Elizabeth Bentley, a married woman of 57 years, paralysed for the past four years and blind for the past three weeks met a tragic fate to-day. She was left sitting before a fire while her husband went to town to make some purchases. He returned half an hour later to find that his wife’s clothes had taken fire and sin* was seriously burned. Medical aid was summoned and >h(* was removed to the public hospital where she died four hours la--1 er.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3649, 9 June 1927, Page 3
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91WOMAN BURNT TO DEATH Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3649, 9 June 1927, Page 3
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