WOMAN STRUCK DEAD.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 5 June 1913, Page 6

WOMAN STRUCK DEAD.

LONDON, May 24. Madame Cassi<jnoi, tlie wife of the well-known international billiard player, was electrocuted in her bath yesterday at St. Cloud. She touched a button controlling; the electric light while she was in the I bath, from which the water was running. A circuit was formed, and a tremendous current passed through her body, killing her instantly. Madame Cassignol's arm was found charred to cinder. The blackened hand was still pressed to the electric button, showing how the accident had occurred.