A TERRIBLE REVENGE.
INDIAN WIPE’S JEALOUSY. BURNS HERSELF TO DEATH. Suva, November 9. An Indian woman met her death in a dreadful manner this week. It is alleged that her husband had been friendly with another woman and his wife violently objected to this. So jealous was she, the story in the Indian community goes, that she decided to have a dreadful revenge on her husband. Shortly before the husband was expected home the woman saturated her clothes and covered herself with kerosene. As he appeared near the house she struck a match and set fire to her clothes. She became a living funeral pyre and before the flames could be extinguished every portion of her clothes had been burned off, not a particle of skin was left on her and she was unconscious.
The ambulance was summoned and the woman was taken to the hospital where she was admitted in an unconscious condition. She died about four hours after setting fire to herself.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3873, 20 November 1928, Page 4
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164A TERRIBLE REVENGE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3873, 20 November 1928, Page 4
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