LINESMAN’S DEATH
CORONER’S FINDING. By Telegraph.—-Press Association. Uawera, March 7. At tin inquest on Lindsay Allan, aged 35 years, a foreman telegraph linesman. who was killed at Kaponga on Wednesday, the Coroner returned a verdict of accidental death. Evidence was given to the effect that deceased was astride a cross-arm of tin 1 telegraph pole when he came into contact with a high tension power line running overhead. Another linesman heard deceased call and saw him fall into the telegraph wires with a flash of blue flames between his body and the wires. A linesman mounted a ladder and grasped deceased’s leather body belt, which broke, deceased falling 1G feet to the ground.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 139, 8 March 1930, Page 13
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