MARRIED WOMAN’S FATE.
DEATH FROM BURNS. Hawera,°Mareh 18. Severe burns resulting from her clothes catching fire while she was using benzine in the vicinity of the washing-copper fire this morning, led to the death four hours later of Mrs. Eliza Shirtcliffe, aged 35, who resided with her husband and five-year-old child at Otakeho, fifteen miles from Haiwera. Deceased had been doing the household washing at the copper fire) outside the house, and at about 10 o’clock a neighbour saw her rolling on the grass with her clothes blazing. She was terribly burnt oil the legs and body. On a chair near the copper was found a bottle of benzine, which she admitted she had been using to dean a dress. -She was admitted to Hawera Hospital at about 1 o’clock, but expired an hour later.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3921, 21 March 1929, Page 2
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135MARRIED WOMAN’S FATE. Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3921, 21 March 1929, Page 2
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