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Show TRIES HORRIBLE DEATH Woman, Crazed by Religion, Soaks Her Clothing in Oil and Strikes Match. SAN BERNARDINO. Cal., Aug. 24. Mrs. Josephine Burton, wife of Albert Burton, a teamster, residing on north D street, this morning attempted a horrible hor-rible death by saturating her clothes with coal oil and setting fire to them. Tho woman was a religious fanatic, and escaped from the county hospital, where she was being treated, last Friday. Today she took a lamp filled with kerosene and poured the fluid ovor her head, saturating her hair and clothing. Sho then set firo to her clothing and' In a moment was enveloped In flames. She ran screaming with pain until caught and the flames smothered Tho phyolclnn who was callod states that thero la no possibility of the woman recovering. |