LINESMAN KILLED
FALL FROM LADDER CAMBRIDGE ACCIDENT (Tor Press Association.) CAMBRIDGE, this day. Thomas Harwood, an assistant linesman, aged SG, employed by the Cambridge Power Board, fell from a street pole at 4 o’clock yesterday and broke his neck. Artificial respiration was tried tor threcquarters of an hour without success. The line was dead at the time, and a mark of a boot indicated that he slipped from the ladder 23ft. from the ground. The deceased leave a wife and a large family
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20120, 14 December 1939, Page 11
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83LINESMAN KILLED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20120, 14 December 1939, Page 11
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