Cassville Republican, Thursday, Mar. 3, 1892 

Ash News

A sad accident happened R. E. Raines little girl recently which is told as follows: Some five years ago Mr. Raines married a Miss Blevins. They had one child. Mrs. Raines died and he child was cared for by its grandmother until a short time ago when Mr. Raines married a Miss Summey and his child was taken to her now home. One morning Mrs. Raines started to the spring after water when the little one came running after her screaming, with her clothes on fire. Before it could be extinguished the child was burned so badly that it died the next morning. Mrs. Raines was charge with killing the child by saturating its clothes with oil and throwing it into the fire and then leaving it. It is reported the the child repeatedly so stated before it died. Mrs. Raines hearing began Feb. 20th before Squire Floyd of Benton Co., Ark., and lasted three days. She was acquitted but the filling is strongly against her.

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