BURNED TO DEATH.
FATE AT CAMBRIDGE^, (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) CAMBRIDGE, this day. A sad fatality occurred yesterday morning a* Kara-piro. near Cambridge. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Price got up to milk their cows, and left their children in bed with a fire in the room. While his parents were away, the youngest boy, aged 3. got up and set his nightshirt on fire. The little fellow's screams brought his mother rescue, and she made desperate efforts to save him, getting burned in trying to extinguish the flames. The" child, who was severely scorched from head to foot, was at once wrapped up and taken by the father to the Victoria Hospital, at Cambridge, where he was attended by Dr. Roberts. The case was hopeless from the first, and the child died this aiternoon. An inquest will be held to-day. Price has been very unfortunate lately. Eighteen months ago he sustained compound fracture of one leg through his horse running away. This laid him up for six months and left him lame.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 137, 10 June 1907, Page 5
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