WOMAN’S FATAL BURNS
CLOTHES CATCH ON FIRE
BENZINE FUMES IGNITE
Press Association HAWERA, Monday. Severe burns resulting from her clothes catching lire while she was using benzine in the vicinity of a copper lire this morning led to the death four hours later of Mrs. Eliza Shirtcliffe, aged 35 years, who lived with her husband and a five-year-old child at Otakeho, 15 miles from Hawera. Mrs. Shirtcliffe had been washing at a copper fire outside the house. At about 10 o’clock a neighbour saw her rolling on the grass with her clothes blazing, and found she was terribly burned on the legs and body. On a chair near the copper was found a \ bottle of benzine which she said she j had been using to clean a dress, j The unfortunate woman was rushed to the hospital, arriving about 1 ’ o'clock, but she died an hour later.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 616, 19 March 1929, Page 16
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147WOMAN’S FATAL BURNS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 616, 19 March 1929, Page 16
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