A HORRIBLE DEATH.
WOMAN INJURED BY FIRE. (Per Press Association.) Wellington, last night. By a fire which occurred ime last night in a three-roomed house ill Frederick street a woman named Janet Orr, 04 years of age, wife of the occupier, was burned to death. Her husband, .Ttuues Orr, left the house early in the evening to go to the Theatre, and at that time the woman was slightly under the influence of drink. It is supposed that stie was carrying a lighted kerosene lamp and fell, the lamp bursting and setting the house on fire. The flames were confined to the scullery, but tiie woman was dead when assistance arrived, and the body was terribly burned.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 869, 20 April 1903, Page 2
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117A HORRIBLE DEATH. Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 869, 20 April 1903, Page 2
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