ATTEMPTED SUTTEE
INDIAN CHILD-WIFE. RESCUED EXTENSIVELY BURNED
CLINGS TO BURNING BODY
(United Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.15 p.m.) CALCUTTA, August 29.
Overcome with grief at the death of her husband, aged 24, a girl aged 16, at Diamond Harbour, Calcutta, attempted suttee. (She threw herself on a blazing pyre, clinging to the burning body. The. mourners rescued her, senseless and extensively burned.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 272, 29 August 1933, Page 5
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64ATTEMPTED SUTTEE Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 272, 29 August 1933, Page 5
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