Burned to Death.
OLD WIDOW’S AWFUL END.
DRAGGED DEAD FROM EED,
[Per Press Association.] Auckland, April 6,
Mrs Annie Davis, aged 70, widow of C. B. Davis, formerly headmaster of Howick school, was burned to death
in a house in Upper Queen Street yesterday morning at 1 o’clock. | Mrs Allen, occupier of the house, hearing a noise in a room let to Mrs j Davis, hastened to the room and was ! horrified to find that flames were dashing under the door. Mrs Allen opened the , door and found the room a mass of flames. The woman was lying face downwards on the bed, apparently dead, and was dragged out, when it was found that she had been horribly burn-
ed, life being extinct. The fire brigade soon arrived on the spot and confined the fire to the room in which it originated.
The origin is a mystery, hut it is supposed that Mrs Davis touched the curtains behind the door with a lighted candle.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 89, 6 April 1914, Page 5
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164Burned to Death. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 89, 6 April 1914, Page 5
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