A HUMAN TOUCH
MEIN’S FIENDISH ACT,
YOUNG GIRL THE VICTIM
ASSAILANTS ESCAPE. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPT EIGHT, Received Dec. 31, TO.so'a.m. LONDON, Dec. 30. A shocking outrage is reported from Belfast, a girl aged 17 being converted; into a human torch. Lily Whyte was out- walking when three men in a motor-oar seized and beat her. They then poured-: petrol over her and deliberately set fire to her clothes.? The men escaped. The girl ; was sent to hospital desperately injured-
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 31 December 1924, Page 5
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79A HUMAN TOUCH Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 31 December 1924, Page 5
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