TASMANIAN TRAGEDY
THREE MEN ELECTROCUTED Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. HOBART, January 27. (Received January .27, at 10 a.m.) Three men employed by the Public Works Department were electrocuted at New Norfolk when the wire on the winch which, they were working came in contact with a hydro-electric transmission wire carrying 11,000 volts. The victims'.were Alfred Button (forty-five), s with three children j Charles Shaw, (forty-four), married, with seven children; and Richard Harrison, married, with eleven children.
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Evening Star, Issue 21630, 27 January 1934, Page 13
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76TASMANIAN TRAGEDY Evening Star, Issue 21630, 27 January 1934, Page 13
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