FELL NINETY FEET.
GIRL ELECTROCUTED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WAXCtAXUI, this day. The body of Miss Gwen Lillian Jones, aged 20, a daughter of Mr. L. T. Jones, farmer, of Paparangi, was found earlv this morning underneath the steel tower carrying the Wanganui-Rangitikei electric power lines across the Wanganui River. The girl had evidently climbed the tower, come into contact with the live wire carrying 110.000 volts and wis electrocuted. She fell 90ft to the ground.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 99, 29 April 1939, Page 7
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75FELL NINETY FEET. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 99, 29 April 1939, Page 7
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