BRIDE BURNED TO DEATH.
The account of a tragic occurrence after a wedding comes by the last English mail. A young carman named Albert Jordan was married at St. Gabrielle's Church, Pimlico, and had taken apartments for his bride in Effinghainstreet. After the ceremony the young couple, accompanied by the bridegroom's brother and the married .sisjer of the bride aiul her brother-in-law, returned to the house, where the bride was left to prepare the wedding feast while the bridegroom and his friends went for a short row on the river. Mrs Jordan was preparing some custard by the fire when a spirit lamp, which was in the fender, blazed up in the, draught caused by an open window and set fire to the light dress which she Was wearing. The bride's sister, Mrs Elizabeth Duke, who was resting at the time, was awakened by the screams of Mrs Jordan, and made frantic attempts to put out the flames. Her own arms and hands were badly burned in the endeavor, and she rushed out on the landing. A lodger came to Mrs Duke's rescue and covered her with a quilt. By this time the alarm had been raised, and a number of people rushed into the house, to be soon followed by firemen and policemen. The most tragic part of the affair was the fact that the unliappy bride was being burned to death while those who came to the rescue thought that her sister only was in danger.
Mrs .hekman, who was in charge of the house, told an Express representative that no one realised for a moment that any olio was in danger except Mrs Duke, ivlio was terribly injured. "ft was ray son-in-law," she said, "who broke the news to the bridegroom who came "hack to the wedding breakfast to find a crowd before the door." Mrs Jordan lingered on at St. George's Hospital until five o'clock on Sunday afternoon. Almost the last words she spoke to her distraught husband as he stood by her bedsied were: "It wasn't anybody's fault. Tt was the spirit lamp." She was conscious almost to the last, •,.-uaS.2" I
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 5 October 1907, Page 3
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357BRIDE BURNED TO DEATH. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 5 October 1907, Page 3
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