FELL INTO FIREPLACE IN FAINTING FIT
WOMAN FATALLY BURNED (Special to THE SUN.) MASTERTON, Tuesday. As the result of being severely burned through falling in a fainting fit into an open fireplace, Wiki Tanara, aged 31, a native woman, living at Gladstone, near Masterton, died in hospital on Monday. When Mr. J. C. Matson, a farmer, called to collect milk for his pigs, the woman came rushing from the house with her clothes on lire. Mr. Matson pulled the burning clothes from her, by which time her husband had arrived on the scene. The injured woman was then clothed in a rug and was conveyed by Mr. Matson to the Masterton Hospital. On admission it was found chat her body Avas severely burned, and little hope was entertained for her reco\ery. She gradually sank and died at 11.35 p.m. on Monday. An inquest Avas held to-day, Avhen a verdict of accidental death from severe burns was returned. The body was removed to Gladstone, where a tanfii is being held* .
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 203, 16 November 1927, Page 12
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