BURNED TO DEATH.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 152, 2 July 1897, Page 4

BURNED TO DEATH.

SAD DEATH OF A WOMAN.

A young married woman, RJrs Agnes Fuller, of Newmarket, met with a shocking death to-day. She was the wife of an employee in the Captain Cook Brewry of Newmarket, and lived in a small cottage alongside the brewery. Her husband went to work at his usual time this morning, bub aboub nine o'clock he was told thab hia house was on fire. Rushing out he found that) ii) was his wife and not his house that was on fire. She was in the kitchen and enveloped in flames, the whole of her clothes being in a blaze. The husband and others extinguished the flames and did what they could for the unfortunate woman. Dr. Gordon was called in, and the woman was afterwards conveyed to the Hospital, where Bho died shortly after noon to-day. Death was the result of shock caused by very severe burns, li is not known exactly how her dress caught fare, bub ie is presumed that she was standing near the fire, on which some sticks of reeinoue pine wood were burning, and that her dress which was of a very inflammable material, was thereby ignited. The burns wore very severe, the whole body being badly burned. Mrs Fuller was 31 years of age. An inqueab ia expected bo be held to-morrow ab tho Hospital,