DIED IN FEARFUL AGONY.
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KEROSENE STOVE BURSTS. BOY AND GIRL SET ON FIRE. MELBOURNE, December 28. k terrible burning fatality occurred at Healesville, a small town, about 40 miles east north-east from Melbourne. A lad named Noyes, aged 11, and a maid employed in his father's country cottage, were standing near a kerosene stove on which breakfast was being cooked, when the stove burst. The clothing of the maid, Alice Currie, and the lad was set on fire by the burning oil, and in a few seconds the unfortunate pair were a mass of fire. Both died in fearful agony.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 9016, 30 December 1907, Page 5
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107DIED IN FEARFUL AGONY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 9016, 30 December 1907, Page 5
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