CHILD FATALLY BURNED
NIGHTDRESS CATCHES FIRE. PLAYING BEFORE OPEN GRATE. BROTHER'S EFFORTS UNAVAILING. [bv teßegraph.-jress association.] CHRISTCHURCH. Sunday. Ftftal burns were r.eceivcd by Monica Claire Oldfield, aged 5 years and 7 months, when playing, in a bedroom of her father s house at Broadfields, near Christchurch, yesterday morning, before an open fire. The child's nightdress caught alight and hef brother and sister tried to pull off the blazing garment. The brother, aged 11, then threw a blanket round the girl, but she was severely Durned and died in the Christchurch Hospital yesterday afternoon. At a subsequent inquest the coroner commended the brother and sister on their prompt action. A verdict was returned that the child died from burns and shock accidentally received.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19721, 22 August 1927, Page 8
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