BOY ELECTROCUTED
TAMPERED WITH INSTALLATION. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, December 15. “A crystal set is a perfectly safe instrument for anyone to use,” said Mr McNeil, Coroner, at an inquest on Leigh Holdsworth Auton to-day, “but if the user under the mistaken idea he is improving the working of the set connects it up to the source of electric power in the house —an action which is absolutely unnecessary—he is creating an extremely dangerous condition and running a very grave risk of being electrocuted.” Mr Wilcocks, Chief Inspector of the Wellington Corporation Lighting Department, said he understood the cover of the switch of the hot point had been taken off and the set connected to the five wire by a twist. Apart from the boy being in the bath this was a dangerous thing to do. It was just courting disaster, and was against the regulations. A verdict was returned that deceased died by electrocution. The Coroner stressed on the public that it was an offence to touch an electric installation in any house.
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Southland Times, Issue 21578, 16 December 1931, Page 5
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