DEATH BY ELECTROCUTION
How a boy was electrocuted during tho inspection of a new wireless aerial was recently revealed at an inquest on John Kenneth Hodgson, aged 12, of Hamlyn s Lane, Exeter. With his father tho boy had climbed up to tho house rafters to examine the aerial. They obtained their light from a bulb attached by fiox to the house lighting circuit. The ends of the flex, it was stated, had been pushed too far into the bulb-holder. When tho boy stepped upon a junction box or a lead-covered cable on one of the joists, he set up an earth connection, and received a shock of 210 volts, from which he died. A verdict of " accidental death " was recorded..
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21456, 1 April 1933, Page 9 (Supplement)
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121DEATH BY ELECTROCUTION New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21456, 1 April 1933, Page 9 (Supplement)
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