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Friday last.Leitii—Woman Burned to Death—At a late hour on Thursday night, the inhabitant# \n a high tenement in Hillhouaefield were alarmed by observiog amoko issuing from a room in the upper storey of the building, occupied by an old muWtto woman, named Hannah Methroo, who residedalone. They knocked lit the door, but recedingno answer forced U open, when they found the woman lying in hod, and her bed and body cloihea on fi re. A plentiful supply of wafer bel og at hind, the damos were soon extinguished, but not before she was frightfully burned. She wan conveyed to the Hospital, wbaco sho lingered till ten o'clock yesterday morning, when ebe died. The accident happened through the incautious use t { a lighted caodle.Pnirnv mtr fro I kfftf it o fin inlAfmahnn
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Edinburgh Evening Courant

Edinburgh, Midlothian, GB

Sat, Oct 12, 1867

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