SELF-ELECTROCUTED
BOY'S STRANGE DEATH. LONDON, December 18. A boy nf fourteen at Birmingham was in the habit of giving himself light electric shocks in his bath. Usually lie used a small medical battery, but yesterday he connected the wires with the electric lighting fixings in the room.
Tlie strong current could not be controlled by the instrument, and the charge, distributed by the water in tlie bath, electrocuted the boy.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 307, 24 December 1912, Page 9
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