DREADFULLY BURNED
BOY'S FATAL PRANK WITH PETROL [Per United Press Association.! CHRISTCHURCH, January 31. Richard Vernon \\ atkins, aged ten, was burnt to death yesterday. He and tnree other boys found a gallon of petrol iu a tin. Watkins put a match to it, and before ho could run the flames caught his clothes, inflicting terrible injuries, from which he died six hours later.
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Evening Star, Issue 19778, 31 January 1928, Page 5
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63DREADFULLY BURNED Evening Star, Issue 19778, 31 January 1928, Page 5
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