A malicious act, causing great suffering to a little fellow named Thomas Creighton, was perpetrated in Moray Place yesterday morning. Creighton was playing with some others, when a boy ran past, and threw a lighted piece of paper containing powder at him. The package struck him on the breast and exploded, setting fire to his clothes. Some men quickly stripped off his jacket, waistcoat, and shirt, and found him to be badly burnt and blistered, necessitating his removal to the Hospital. -Otago Daily Times, 10/1/1874.
Although promptly taken to the hospital, Thomas died not long after. I have found nothing more about the event - Thomas has no burial record in Dunedin cemeteries and as far as I can tell there were no legal consequences of the act.
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