REMARKABLE FATALITY.
A woman from Lorraine met her death in an unusual maner iu Cologne, recently. Crossing over the border into Zweibrucken, she obtained a bottle of a preparation for the relief of asthma, which had been brought from Bonn. To avoid paying duty on taking it into Lorraine, she placed "it inside her blouse. Shortly before the • train started, the bottle, warmed by tho heat of her body, exploded, and the contents burned her so severely that she died within two hours.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19956, 26 May 1928, Page 2 (Supplement)
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