HUMAN TORCH TRAGEDY
ONLY CHARRED BONES REMAIN BATH FULL OF PETROL Australian and N.Z. Press Association (United Service) Reed. 10.40 a.m. NICE, Tuesday. Intending to leave nothing to chance, a Casasco accountant, suffering from a persecution mania, placed bottles of petrol in every nook and cranny in his apartment, including the cupboards and drawers, and sprinkled trains of sulphur from them to the bath, which he also filled with petrol. He then drank a bottle of champagne, entered the bath, and set fire to it. He instantly became a human torch, of which only a handful of charred bones remained when the firemen finally mastered the flames.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 783, 2 October 1929, Page 9
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107HUMAN TORCH TRAGEDY Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 783, 2 October 1929, Page 9
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