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Touched Live Wire on Rool WARNING IGNORED
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NEW PLfMOUTfi, Last Night. Through touching a live wire William Allen Riding, aged nine, was electro* cuted at his parents' home in Vogeltown to-night. The boy attd his father Were working on the roOf of & shed above which a live Wire rau. The father left the reof for a mement after wartting the boy uot to touch ihe wire but when he retttfned the boy was clutching the Wire and gasping. Mr Riding dashcd into ihe house and switched off the current, bttt on returning found the boy on thi ground dead.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 57, 23 March 1937, Page 4
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