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Show A Suicide. Lincoln, Neb., Sept. lti. Special.-Miss Special.-Miss Kittic Verjaal, the sixteen-year-old daughter of John Verjaal, a stone mason at Second aud F streets, was terribly burned this morning and her death is hourly expected. The family has been accustomed to make quick lires in the kitchen stove of mornings by using as kiudling dry chunks of clay soaked over night in kerosene. In applying the match to these this morning Kittie was too close to tho stove and vvhou the combustible mass blazed up it set lire to her hair and clothes. In her fright, the girl ran into the yard and the wind fanued the llames into a perfect blaze that burned almost every stitch of clothing on her bodv aud scared her arms, face, breast, abdomen, and lower limbs until the cooked flesh hung in shreds. Her agonv was most excruciating, and her cries' heart rending- Physicians were called, and they enveloped her from head to foot in cotton soaked in oil. Narcotics were also given to make her unconscious of her pain, but the doctors said it was impossible for her to live. |