A TERRIBLE DEATH.
WIDOW’S BURNED BODY. KEROSENE AND MATCHES NEAR. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Monday. ' The charred body of Mrs Annie Bishop, widow of Constable Elshop, recently deceased, was found on a vacant section near her home at Birkenhead this morning with an empty kerosene bottle and a box of matches nearby. From the appearance of the ground where the body was found, it seemed that the woman had made a heap of pine-needles, saturated it with kerosene, and fired It with a match. She had been in illhcalth since the death of her husband a year ago.
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Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17805, 2 September 1929, Page 7
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98A TERRIBLE DEATH. Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17805, 2 September 1929, Page 7
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