BOY ELECTROCUTED.
FATAL BEETLE CHASE
David Walter Griffiths, aged 6 years, of Anrmndale, New South Wales, was electrocuted while searching for locusts recently.
A playmate, David Lindsay McAlister, said:—"l was with David Griffiths on tho verandah of a. house. He was climbing up a pole after a beetle, which flew on tho trees first, then to somo wires. As he climbed higher lie leaned down ami said, T will see you next year.' At last tho * beet? UIC l '°° f a " d k '" L OVCI ' to « uL
wii'p^ rifl ir-f 13 t s l li - pp ? d a,,fl Ml over the his h-.nl 1 knC ° Stn «* ft "u Ck - , 110 M\ ho cried called a WO mns?Bho ''" Hl gave thom to a man A ' Blovcs ~ } "d man pushed Griffiths ' rr ~ or > ouotlicr Pole. sSoke ° f[ U,a wires w ith a clothes and lio « T" ,IK from his
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20481, 5 February 1930, Page 18
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