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Otago Witness, Issue 2650, 28 December 1904, Page 11

While a young woman named Muriel Clark, residing at Burwood. Victoria, was cleaning gloves with benzine her hands came in contact with a gas jet. and before the flames could be extinguished they had caught her clothing and inflicted injuries to which sho succumbed A man named Albert William Bonfield, 23 i years of age, was found guilty at Adelaide ! on the Bth inst. of having murdered a girl named Caroline Hinds, aged 17 years and 9 months, at Kensington on October 28, but the jury strongly recommended the accused to mercy on account of his youth. Tho couple had been keeping company for about 12months, and it appeared that the crime was the cutcome of jealousy owing to the girl dancing with other men. The accused, owing to i.n inSranity, was unable to dance. | The death sentence was pronounced, but the ; jury's recommendation was forwarded to the proper Quarters.