Six-year-old Child Burnt to Death
TRAPPED IN BLAZING HAY-SHED. Per Press Association. TAUMARUNUI, Mar. 28. Lorelei Margaret Spring, aged six years, who was living with her grandmother, Mrs Sheehan, was burnt to death this afternoon. Apparently the child was playing alone in a shed stacked with hay in which a lire broke out. The blaze was seen by neighbours who sent for the brigade and the tragic discovery was made of the child’s body among the ruins of the shed, which was a blazing inferno. It is not known how the firo originated.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 75, 30 March 1936, Page 6
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