MAN ELECTROCUTED
BODY- FOUND ON TOWN belt
While playing about on the Town Belt on Mount Victoria at about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, a boy named Gwynne was startled to come upon the body of a man. lying about; TO feet from ono of the poles carrying electric power cables.
The police were informed, and inquiries disclosed that tho unfortunate man was ’Thompson Thomas Faulkner, who had been residing with his wife at 7 John Street. -
Death, which was caused by electrocution, must have been instantaneous, as the hands and one shoulder were badly burnt. A length of galvanised fencing wire was coiled round the body; and the loose end must have come iu contact with the higli-tenstoh line. Deceased, it is stated.’had been suffering for some time from asthma. The body was removed to the morgue.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 297, 14 September 1927, Page 7
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137MAN ELECTROCUTED Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 297, 14 September 1927, Page 7
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