BURNT TO DEATH
COUNTRY POSTMISTRESS
ATTEMPT TO SAVE BOOKS
(Received May 16j 10 ajn.)
MELBOURNE, This Day.
In an attempt to save the liooks of the post office at YaUourn_, Mrs. Hutchinson, tho postmistress, was "burned to death. Her husband tided to .rescue her, 'but was driven back by the flames and smoke. A weatherboard building, including dwelling, store, and post office, was destroyed. *
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 114, 16 May 1934, Page 9
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64BURNT TO DEATH Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 114, 16 May 1934, Page 9
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