"HER BABY DIED."
INDIAN CHILD WSDOW'S ACT.
,Bt Electric TELEGRAPH—CoPYHIUU' (United Press association."! (Received 8.0 a.m.) Calcutta, January 26. Her baby died, and the widow, a drl of fourteen, prepared a funeral ■yre in the corner of her bedroom ;iiknown to anybody. She saturated ;er clothing with kerosene, ignited ~ and lay on the pyre, while the nass blazed. A female relative .oard the crackling, and pulled her If and quenched the flames despite he protests of the girl, who died vom her burns.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 23, 27 January 1914, Page 8
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