Burned to Death.
A HORRIBLE CASE. [By Telegraph.] (Per Press Association.) Auckland, This day. A Maori girl named Tirinai Tuihau, aged 17, was burned to death at Kawhia. A spark from a camp fire settled on the girl's clothes. On waking up and feeling the fire she started to run towards the sea. The light clothing \ she had on was all consumed. The unfortunate girl expired in great agony. In trying to get through a barbed wire fence she was badly mangled.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 225, 20 January 1897, Page 2
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82Burned to Death. Hastings Standard, Issue 225, 20 January 1897, Page 2
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