BOY ELECTROCUTED
Br Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, June 7. A boy named James Caskie, a telegraph messenger, 15 years of age, living at Cumberland Street, was electrocuted on Saturday night about 9 o'clock in the reserve known as the Triangle, in Ixiwer High Street. Caskio was swinging on cno of the wiro stays of a flagpole when the high wind blew the wire against tho electric power main. This probably carried a current of about 1700 volts, and Caskie must havo been killed instantaneously. At the inquest a formal vcrd'iut was returned.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 217, 8 June 1920, Page 4
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91BOY ELECTROCUTED Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 217, 8 June 1920, Page 4
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