MAN ELECTROCUTED.
EVE OF BROTHER'S WEDDING. PREPARING CAR FOR CEREMONY. Whilo preparing one night recently for his brother's wedding, James William Green, agod 28, of Old Guildford, near Sydney, was electrocuted 111 remarkable circumstances. Mr. Green had painted his motor-car and was renovating the machine for the forthcoming ceremony Ho was working by the light of a portable electric globe, the flex plugged into a power socket on his front verandah. Apparently the insulation on the flex wires had worn thin, and Mr. Green received a fatal shock. Some time later Mr. Green was found by his sister lying across the front of tho car. When she touched him, she, too, received a shock. Tho power was switched off, and a doctor and an ambulance were summoned, bub Mr. Green was beyond aid.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20954, 18 August 1931, Page 10
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