BOY ELECTROCUTED SEIZES LIVE WIRE BROKEN BY WIND
(IT TELEGRAPH.— PRESS ASSOCIATION.) STRATFORD, This .Day. The heavy wind yesterday disloged an electric light wire which hung a few feet from the ground. When the linesman went to repair, it he found the dead body of a boy named Henry Webberly, nine and a-half years old, with his hands grasping the wire. Death must have been instantaneous.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 117, 19 May 1914, Page 8
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66BOY ELECTROCUTED SEIZES LIVE WIRE BROKEN BY WIND Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 117, 19 May 1914, Page 8
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