TELEGRAMS.
(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
WELLINGTON, June 28.
An elderly woman named Ann Parker, an umbrella mender, was fonnd at her residence, Taranaki-street, with her baok and right arm badly burnt. The sufferer was removed to the hospital, and her condition is so serious tbat justices have gone to take her depositions.
Later. — The woman Parker is unable to account for the injuries. She states tbat her husband and she had some words this morning, and on leaving for work at 6 o'clock be expressed a hope she would be dead by night. She occupied a separate room to her husband. The latter asked her if she would have a cup of tea before he left. About au hour after her bosband's departure she found her dress, which was under her head, to. be on, fire, and she was badly burnt about tbe baok and arm. She bad no matohes in the dress, and she cannot suggest any o&use for the fire. Her husband smoked. She saw his pipe on the floor, but could not say if there was any fire in it. Tbe polioe have no suspicion of foul play.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 2758, 29 June 1894, Page 2
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190TELEGRAMS. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 2758, 29 June 1894, Page 2
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