WOMAN’S TRAGIC DEATH.
FANCY DRESS TAKES FIRE. liy Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, January 13. Mrs Knaptou left a fancy dress da.nov at the village institute near Frome largely made of ootton-w-coL and wai carrying an acetylene lamp when, hoi dress caught fire. A stream was rieai by. and the woman, mad with fear, rushed to the bank, plunged into the. icy water, and was drowned. Meanwhile, her husband and son, who wore stopping up for her. grew anxious They found bits of the scorched costume. ami footmarks on the river bans revealed the seat c-f the tragedy.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16940, 15 January 1923, Page 11
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