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Show I Burned to Death. Sister Marie Edmond of the Order of Notre Dame was burned to death at the convent in Odell, Ills... Tuesday morning. morn-ing. Her charred body was found a short distance from the institution., It is presumed that, she arose at the usual hour. 4 o'clock, to start the kitchen fire, and in some manner her robes caught fire from a torch or candle. can-dle. She must have run some distance, with her apparel burning fiercely, until compelled to drop from exhaustion. She was not missed until 6 o'clock, when the other nuns assembled in the chapel for their morning devotions. A search was then, instituted, and the sad discovery dis-covery made. The victim was 43 years of age and had been in the sisterhood for twenty years. Her name before renouncing the world was Mary McNamee, and she was born and spent half her life in Columbus, O.- Her parents yet reside there. |