CHAIN-SMOKER'S FATE
Stated by her landlady to be a chain smoker, Mrs Mary Kathleen Pentreath, 68-year-old widow, of Bayswater, London, smoked four cigarettes one morning before breakfast and fell asleep. Her clothing caught fire, and she died from burns. At the Paddington inquest a verdict of "Accidental death " was recorded.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23577, 13 August 1938, Page 20
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50CHAIN-SMOKER'S FATE Otago Daily Times, Issue 23577, 13 August 1938, Page 20
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