TASMANIAN TRAGEDY.
GIRL BURNT TO DEATH. WHILE SHE SLEPT. SYDNEY, Marcli 20. While, her mother and father were attending a dance, 300 yards.away, on Saturday nightj Dora Webb, aged ,3, •was. burnt to death at Springfield, Tasmania. Springfield is four miles from Scottsdale, Webb being a fanner in the distriot. When the ...fire alarm was given the mother and father rushed away from the dance, and could discern the figure of the child in -the bed. But the house was a mass of flames, and they were forced to stand impotent and watch the baby perish. After the fire had subsided somewhat the body was recovered, terribly burned. Another child, Noel, aged 11, was nowhere to be found, and it was thought that he, too, had been consumed in the tragic fire, when he was found wandering, half dazed, in the bush. He said that they had not been playing with matches, but that he woke suddenly to find flames licking at Ms bed and ran outside.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 71, 25 March 1926, Page 14
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