CHILD ELECTROCUTED
WATER TANK ELECTRIFIED PERTH, April 3. This afternoon when Denis Haywood, 4}j, was playing in the yard at his parents homo, Oonnaught street, West Perth, he touched the rain water tank and water pipe and was electrocuted. Death was instantaneous. A doctor who was called in touched the same spot and received a bad shock, but recovered later.
It is unknown how the tank and pipe became electrified.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16927, 16 April 1929, Page 7
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70CHILD ELECTROCUTED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16927, 16 April 1929, Page 7
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