FATAL ACCIDENTS.
SAD BURNING CASE. WOMAN'S PAINFUL DEATH. WIFE OF A SOLDIER. [BT TELEGRAPH.—PBESS ASSOCIATION".] Dttxedix, Thursday. A DiSTBESprxG burning accident, wherein Mrs. Pennycook, wife of Captain Pennycook, proprietor of the Clutha Leader, lost her life, occurred at Balclntha this morning. Me?. Pennjycook had been suffering from influenza and erysipelas and was under medical treatment. Early this morning she left her bed and stood beside the fire, when by seme means her nightdress caught fire. Her screams awakened her son and daughter, who extinguished the flames, hut the shock to the system was so severe that death occurred about midday. Captain Pennycook is on bis -way to the front in charge of the Otago detachment of the sixth reinforcements. The deceased, who leaves four sons and two daughters, was about thirty years of age. She was the daughter of Mr. Graham, formerly railway statkmmaster at Timaru.
YOUTH KILLED BY COLLISION.
TRAMCAR AND BICYCLE. Lbt ieliseakl—press association; j Christchurch, Thursday. Arthur Charles Nottingham, aged 17, while cycling to his home at Halswell this evening, collided with a tramcar, and had his skull, jaw, and an arm and a leg fractured. He was dead when picked up. .. • „.-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16019, 10 September 1915, Page 9
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