WOMAN IN FLAMES.
STOVE BLOWN TO PIECES. LITTLE' BOY'S EVIDENCE. . --v.- ' ■; J ■■ '• Crying l at the memory of the scene he had to ■describe, a little boy of 11 years told the coroner -in Sydney how Mary Minehan, aged ■ 62, was fatally burned at. her home in Wells Street, Bedfern, on February-28. The witness was Ernest James Marshall. He told the coroner, .who spoke kindly to him, and eventually calmed him, that he was in Wells Street, and saw smoke coming from an upstairs room at Miss Minehan's house. Then through the window he saw. Miss Minehan, whom he knew.: Her clothes . were in flames, and she fell back on the. floor. Marshall ran to the corner and brought men, who put out the flames. , Evidence Was given that Miss Mineban's clothes caught fire sifter the explosion of a -spirit stove which she was lighting. The stove was blown to pieces, and Miss Minehan's clothes were burnt off from the neck to the waist. She died in I Sydney Hospital the next day. A verdict of accidental death was re-j corded. I
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18663, 20 March 1924, Page 9
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