ACCIDENTS & DEATHS
CHILD ELECTROCUTED. WIRE BROUGHT DOWN BY STORM (Per Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., January 24. An easterly gale in Palmerston North brought a tragedy, when a six-year-okl child was killed by electric shock through coming into contact with a high voltage wire brought down in the storm. John Neville Wrigley left home on an errand, but be failed to return, and was found about four chains from bis borne gateway, lying on the footpath with both hands clutching a live wire. He was dead when found and must have been killed instantly. There were no burns on his hands.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 89, 25 January 1938, Page 6
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