A short time since an unfortunate girl of the town was sitting in the White Lion public-house, Chatham, and complained of being cold, upon which ah inhuman brute (a labouring man) said he would give her a warming, and instantly set fire to her clothes, by putting a lighted candle up her petticoats. The poor creature ran off in a fright, and, before her clothes could be extinguished, was burnt in a most shocking manner.
She, however, was going on well, and was considered out of danger from the injury she had received from the burn, when she took cold, and being seized with a fever, died on Tuesday se'nnight.
A jury was summoned to inquire into the cause of her decease, who deliberated, by adjournment, two days, when they gave in a verdict - Died by the visitation of God.
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