WOMAN SUCCUMBS TO SEVERE BURNS
BENZINE IGNITES CLOTHES. USED SPIRIT IN VICINITY OF COPPER FIRE. Per Press Association. HAWERA, Last Night. Severe burns, resulting from her clothes catching fire while sho was using benzine in the vicinity of a washing copper lire this morning, led to the death, four hours later, of Mrs. Eliza Shirtcliffe, aged 35, who resided with her husband and live-yoar-old child at Otakcho, 15 miles from Haweia. Doceased had been doing tho household washing at the copper fire outsido tho house.
At about ten o’clock, a neighbour saw her rolling on the grass with her clothes blazing and found sho was terribly blurnt on tho legs and body. On a chair near tho copper was found a bottle of benzine, which sho admitted she had been using to clean a dress. Mrs. Shirtcliffo was admitted to hospital hero at about one o’clock, but expired an hour later.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6863, 19 March 1929, Page 6
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151WOMAN SUCCUMBS TO SEVERE BURNS Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6863, 19 March 1929, Page 6
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