GIRL ELECTROCUTED.

Waikato Times, Volume 99, Issue 16634, 27 October 1925, Page 8

GIRL ELECTROCUTED.

TRAGIC SEQUEL TO GAME. While trying lo recover a ball from Hie Southern Railway line between Klarlslield and Clapham .1 unction, a London girl, .loan Dowries, aged. 12, was electrocuted. At the inquest the girl's mother staled that they had only lived in the house for a week. A 14-year-old boy explained lo the Coroner 'that he was playing cricket in the garden with his two silers, Joan and Sheila. The ball was hit over the fence, on to the railway, and Joan climbed over after it. Suddenly Sheila called to him to hurry up, and on getting over the fence he found Joan lying between the live rail and the ordinary rail. He pulled her off.

A ganger staled that he saw the children from a distance and hurried to warn them of their danger. When he reached them they were trying lo haul the girl up the bank. An electric (rack inspector told the Coroner that the child must have received the full force of GOO volts when she touched Hie live rail. In recording a verdict of accidental death the Goiouer observed that Hie family, having been in the house only a week, did not apparently realise Hie terrible danger of children trespassing on the line. The danger to which children wore subjected when they lived in houses adjoining electrified railway lines could not be too widely known.