GIRL ELECTROCUTED
TOUCHED A SWITCH
(By Telegraph—Press .Association.)
GISBORNE, January 1,
At Whakatane, June Ellis, aged six, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Ellis, Edgecumbe, was electrocuted at 7.15 last night. Evidence given at an inquest today showed that the child, the daughter of a linesman living in the vicinity of a sub-station, climbed the sub-station structure to a height of 25 feet and touched a 50,000-volt switch.
Mr. S. Jenkins, another linesman, heard the noise of an electric arc and ran to the yards, where he discovered the child lying on her back on the ground with smoke coming from her clothes. She was apparently dead, and was terribly burned.
The verdict was that death was instantaneous, due to the child coming into contact with an electric switch. No blame was attachable to the lines* man.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 1, 2 January 1936, Page 7
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