SHOCKING BURNING ACCIDENT.
A Helpless Woman’s Terrible Death. By Tetegraph.T-Press Association. / I i Gisi'OKNß, December 7. , A partly demented Maori . Woman, Akeniha Keating, wife of; a European, has met . with a horrible death at North Gisborne. She was helpless, and had to be fed and -lifted about by her husband. ■ On returning home frqin.Gisborne, on Saturday, he found the long grass in the orchard blazing, and his wife dead in the midst of the flames. It is supposed she had boon smoking, and had thrown a lighted match into the grass. , , . , , ,Tlie poor ; woman was dreadfully burned about the upper part of her body, and all the hair was off her head. Bight or ten years ago her mother was burned to death within a few yards of the same spot.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LVIX, Issue 2997, 8 December 1896, Page 2
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