FATAL ELECTRIC SHOCK.
WIRELESS MAST FALLS Ojf ; POWER LINE ! I | ACCIDENT NEAR GISBOIG® ' ASSOCIATION IlLlr.n.^ GISBORNE, June 24. Through a steel wireless nasi falling against a high tension line yesterday afternoon, ferifo, Grey Bradley, aged 19, a son of Ur' Walter Gladwin Bradley, Valley road, Mangapapa, received a electric shock, and died almost Instantaneously. With his brother, Arthur Gladwin : Bradley, aged 18, and another yootls, Ralph Bradley was erecting th® mast on the farm of his parents. The mast consisted of two ftw-fogt lengths of s".eel piping, and wire ropes. A hole had been dug nj tie • ground, and the mast -. as supported' against a nearby tree. When ail was ready for erection the mart foy some means slipped and fell across a power line carrying 6600 volte, Ralph Bradley had hold of j>De a£~ the guy ropes at the time, and xe-.' ceived the full charge, being killed almost instantaneously. t His brother received a shock andt was considerably burned. He m confined to his bed. The third yooQi was wearing rubber boots at. Uwt time and escaped unhurt.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21199, 25 June 1934, Page 10
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