ELECTROCUTED.
LINESMAN IN WELLINGTON,
WELLINGTON, Thursday.
While working on overhead electric wires at Island Bay this morning a linesman, Arthur Smith, aged 43, residing at Marsden Street, Island Bay, received a shock and fell to the ground. Hβ was admitted to the hospital in a serious condition, and died three hours later.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 135, 10 June 1927, Page 5
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