MAN ELECTROCUTED.
WHILE INSTALLING WIRELESS. AUCKL AN D, Saturday. A telegraphist employed at the Chief Post Uilicc, Mr. L. A. Jones, aged 29, was electrocuted yesterday morning while installing an “earth” connection for a wireless set at his home. Mr. Jones, who was working underneath the house, had taken an electric light on an extension cord down through a trapdoor from a room above. Ten or fifteen minutes later his wife called to him, but received no reply. On going down she was horrified to find her husband dead, with the light still clutched in his hand. Mr. Jones had been married for only a few months.
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Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17804, 31 August 1929, Page 7
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107MAN ELECTROCUTED. Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17804, 31 August 1929, Page 7
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