BOY ELETROCUTED
On Top of a Shed (Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, November 6. ~ Coming in contact with an electric power line on top of a shed near his home at Otahuhu, a boy, Roy Arthur Taylor, aged 6, was electrocuted? The fatality occurred only a short distance from hi s parents’ residence. boy was playing . with his brother,' aged nine, in a small paddock almost opposite their home. One of their balls lodged on the flat roof of a shed at the rear of a taxi-service ga£- ! age. The younger boy clambered to the roof bv way,: of a stack of timber, arid a"shbrt.time afterwards the other boy, noticed • him i lying .stretched',•■out"on the\ corrugated iron roof. The attention of a passer-by was . called. arid he climbed to the roof'arid •found the lad lying with , one of-his hahds within a few inches of a live Wire which was, connected to the garage. Life was extinct.
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Grey River Argus, 7 November 1938, Page 7
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