GIRL ELECTROCUTED
TRAGEDY NEAR WANGANUI
(By Telegraph—JPresai Association.)
WANGANUI, This Day,
The body of Miss Gwen Lillian Jones, aged 20, daughter of Mr. L. T. Jones, farmer, Paparangi, was found early this morning underneath a steel tower carrying the Wanganui-Rangitikei electric power lines across the Wanganui River. Miss Jones had evidently climbed the tower and came in contact with a live wire carrying 110,000 volts and was electrocuted. She fell 90 feet to the ground.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 99, 29 April 1939, Page 11
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