DISTRESSING FATALITY
WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH. (United Press Association.) DUNEDIN, This Day. • A distressing fatality is reported at Ravens'bourne. Upon returning at 9.50 last night from Port. Chalmers, George Anderson, carpenter, found his lions o locked nip. On effecting an entrance he discovered h,s wife, Thomasina Anderson, aged 36, lying in the passage apparently having .been burned to death ■with, only a vestige r>f clothing left. The fire from the 'burning garments had. burned' through, the oilcloth and also through a board an inch th'ck where she lay. It is believed that the fatality is the result of mental illness. Bank books and gold articles were found burnt in a fire place.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 21 July 1916, Page 4
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