FARMHAND KILLED
Picked Up Live Wire IBv Telegraph— Preia AaiaoUtien.) NEW PL YMOdSE, Last Night. Earl Doughty, aged 22, was electrocuted while working on a farm near Eltham to-day. With others he was fellmg trees and a branch of a tree in falling caught in the power lines and dragged the wire down. Doughty took hoia of the wire to free it and was killed instantly. Doughty 's mother lives in Christchurch.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 118, 4 June 1937, Page 8
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