BOY'S DEATH.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 130, 4 June 1935, Page 8

BOY'S DEATH.

FATAL ELECTRIC SHOCK.

FOUND IN WET GRASS.

Evidence" concerning the death of Ronald Rudd, aged S£ years, who waa electrocuted at his parents' home at Blockhouse Bay yesterday morning, was given thi* morning before Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M., coroner.

Annie Metcalfe, grandmother of the

dead boy, Said that at 8.50 yesterday morning lier grandson and another ohild were playing in the baok yard near the waslihouse. Ronald was missed and shortly afterwards was- found behind a-galvanised iron shed. He was lying on his right side, with his right arm by his side and his left arm over his chest. His eyes were shut; he was stretched out at full length and appeared to be dead.' He was not wearing boots or stockings, and was found lying on long, wet grass. Leaning against the shed.was a piece of an old iron bedstead. The boy's mother,. Annie Rudd, said that her«son's right leg was burned and that there were burns across the inside of the fingers of the right hand. There were two separate electric wires from the housevto the shed, but they were h,igh up and it would have been impossible, for the boy to roach them. It appeared that the boy.had been playing with the ol<l bedstead, which was lying against the shed. There were no electric wires on the.property that the boy could have touched, arid he could not have got inside l the shed, as it vvaa locked. The jnqui:y was adjourned.