ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16455, 6 June 1919, Page 3

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

WOMAN’S SAD END. Fer Press Association. NELSON, Juno 5. A married woman named Lessclls was found by her daughter this morning sitting in the kitchen of her house with her clothes in flames. She had apparently .saturated her clothes with kerosene and set herself on fire. The flames were extinguished and the woman removed to the hospital, where she died a few hours later. She had suffered from a nervous breakdown, and her condition had been causing some anxiety to her relations. A BODY FOUND. WELLINGTON. June 5. The body of an elderly widow, named Rebecca Pyroft, was found lying in tho Plantation, near John Street, this afternoon.