Small Boy Electrocuted
CONTACT WITH POWER LINE Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Last Night. Coming in contact with an electric power line on the top of a shed near his home at Otahuhu, a boy, Roy Arthurs Taylor, aged six, was electrocuted. T*.e fatality occurred only a short distance from his parents’ residence. The boy was playing with his brother aged nino in a small paddock almost opposite their home. One of their balls lodged on the flat roof of a shed at the near of a taxiservice garage. The younger boy clambered to the roof by way of a stack ol timber and a short time afterwards the other boy hoticed him lying stretched out on the corrugated iron roof. The attention of a passer-by was called and he climbed to the roof and found the lad lying with one of his hands within a few inches of a live wire, which was connected to the garage. Life was extinct.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 264, 7 November 1938, Page 6
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