BOY ELECTROCUTED
SYDNEY, May 10. A man who is alleged to have run an electric wire along his back fence to stop thieves has been committed for trial on a charge of manslaughter of a boy. He is Richard Hayter, aged 35, a carpenter. The boy was Ronald Wilkins, aged seven, who was electrocuted on February 24. A police witness told the City Coroner that Hayter had admitted putting up a . wire carrying about 240 volts, running part of the way around his house. He claimed to have done this following robberies on his premises. Bail -was allowed,
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 May 1945, Page 6
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