WOMAN BORNEO TO DEATH
VERITABLE HUMAN TORCH.
RACE TO' NEIGHBOUR’S HOUSE.
By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.
Rec. 8.30 p.m. Sydney, Dec. 5. A weatherboard cottage at Coolangatta was burned to-day. From it Mrs. Sooley, with/her clothes blazing, rushed to a neighbour’s. She was a veritable human torch, every vestige of her apparel being burned. She arrived at the neighbour’s in her shoes and died in a few minutes.
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 December 1930, Page 7
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