A WOMAN SERIOUSLY BURNED.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVII, Issue 2529, 7 June 1895, Page 2

A WOMAN SERIOUSLY BURNED.

A young woman named Louie Smith was taken to the Hospital last night seriously burned on various parts of the body. She was notable to give any clear statement as to how she received the injuries; but one account is to the effect that a souffle occurred in the house where she was living, that of a Chinaman named Lee Chung, in Haining street, and that a kerosene lamp fell or was thrown, with the result that the woman was badly burned. It is stated that some larrikins were trying to force their way into the house,'and that thus the quarrel arose. Drs Parkes and Young were summoned, and dressed the woman’s injuries, and she was then ■ taken to the Hospital. She was suffering greatly from the burning she received as well as from shock, but' is likely to recover. The police are now investigating the circumstances. Sergeant Shirley, who was passing in the locality, informed the doctors of the occurrence. Leo Chung, when questioned, could only say that some larrikins got into the house, and that in trying to put them out the woman was knocked down.