A FEMALE STOIC.
A BRAVE GIRL MEETS DEATH BY BURNING. X. N i IN HELPING AN OLD WOMAN. Perth, March 22. A girl named Florizel Lamming, whilst endeavouring to extinguish i the clothing of an elderly woman who-had spilt burning turpentine on herself ignited her own dress.
She ran and hid ixi the bush, and being then paralysed with fear, sat down with her ihands over her head.
She made no outcry, and was not discovered until she was fatally burned.
The woman was saved by her bus band.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 74, 23 March 1912, Page 5
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