STRANGE FATALITY
SHOCK FROM WIRELESS SET. TRAGEDY IN WELLINGTON. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Dec. 10. Leigh Holdsworth Auton, aged 19, belonging to Karamea, West Coast, and boarding in Brooklyn, Wellington, for about two weeks, went last evening to have a bath. A few minutes later another boarder, hearing a curious noise, went to the door and found it locked. He then went round to the window, but this was locked also. He got a screw-driver and opened the fanlight, then saw Auton lying in the bath with a pair of head phones on. He forced an entry and endeavoured to remove tho. ’phones hut received a shock, whereupon he emptied the bath, turned off the switch and called for the police. The police tried artificial respiration for an hour, but Auton was found to be dead. The set was a home-made crystal set and it appears {hat Auton had plugged in a length of wire from the set to a hot-point to act as an aerial.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 306, 10 December 1931, Page 8
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