LINEMAN'S DEATH.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1452, 29 May 1912, Page 4

LINEMAN'S DEATH.

■ ENTANGLED WITH ELECTRIC LIGHT WIRES. An accident ■ which ended fatally occurred in Waterloo Quay at about eleven o'clock yesterdav morning. Thomas Charles Parker and David Thomson, employers of the Post and Telegraph Department, were engaged in repair work on a telephone polo opposite tho Wellington Meat Export Company's works, when Parker foil to the ground and sustained internal injuries and injury to his 'head. In the course of a statement to the police, Thomson said that he saw Parkor descending- by the extension ladder. Parker got entangled with the electric light wires, and the next thing Thomson noticed was that smoke and blue light were coming out of Parker's erm. Parker then .fell to the footpath. Thomson descended at once, and ionnd Parker bleeding profusely and groaning. Parker was semi-conscious. Dr. Izard attended Parker, who w<is subsequently sent to the public hospital, where he died at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Parker, who was 33 years of age, was married, and had three children. He resided at 15 Glenbervio Terrace. He had been in the employ of the Telegraph Department for about seven years, and was regarded as a very careful man. At 2.15 p.m. to-day an inquest mil bo held at the hospital.