CHILD ELECTROCUTED
TOUCHED 50,000 VOLT LINE. [ Per Press Association. 1 WHAKATANE, Jan. 31. June Ellis, aged six, daughter of Mr and Mrs. L. C. Ellis, Edgeeunibe, was electrocuted at 7.15 last night. Evidence was given at an inquest today that the child, the daughter of a linesman living in the vicinity of a substaion, climbed the substation structure to a height of 25 feet and touched a 50,000 volt switch. S. Jenkins, another linesman, heard the noise of an -electric are and ran to the yard and discovered the child lying on her back on the ground with smoke coming from her clothing and dead and terribly burned. The verdict was that death was instantaneous, due to coining into con- ■ tact with an electric switch. No blame I was attachable lo the, linesman.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 1, 2 January 1936, Page 7
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