Obituaries Australia

"I was lying in bed with a candle on my chest, reading. I must have knocked the candle over and caught alight," Mrs. Cecilia Reid [Read] told Dr. H. C. M. Delohery, when he was called to her home about 8.16 p.m. on November 10. She was a widow, 70 years old, and owned the house, in Gale-street, Woolwich, where she lived. Cecil John Knott, a machinist, was passing the house when he heard screams. He ran in and found Mrs. Reid, with her clothes alight, in the hall. He pulled the remainder of her burnt clothes off and put her to bed. She died, however, some hours later at the Balmain Hospital. The City Coroner to-day recorded a verdict of accidental death.