BURNED TO DEATH.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 22 December 1913, Page 8

BURNED TO DEATH.

i^^^^^EOTHING TAKES FIRE

4 BY - TEtEGBAPH—PRESS" ASSOCIATION. v;-;: ;' jC'l. '' :^UCKLAND, Dec.A'22.. On Saturday afternoon, Pauline Mci/aujghlin? aged 25 years,' Wife of John McLaughlaH^' a laborer of Dundonald sia-eet, Newton, was so badly burned by walkiiig,into, a burning rubbish heap iii Newton roM that she succumbed to her injuries a few hours later at the hospital. , .;.'■_;. ' ■' ~:. A man named Jenkin saw Mrs McLaughlan approach the rubbish heap, and after watching it for about threequarters of an hour she stirred it up with her boot until her dress caught fue.... She screamed "Jack,-Jack," but apparently made no effort to extinguish her burning clothing, or to get away from the rubbish; "Jenkin wrapped an oldoverooat round her and extinguished the flames, but the woman was badly burned and died at 7.30 p.m. Other persons who witnessed the affair stated to tb.e that the woman's act appeared to be deliberate, and that the lighting of her dress did not seem to be accidental.