BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 27 May 1927, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.J LISTENER-IN ELECTROCFTEI). LONDON, May 21. Like an American execution, death in a chair was the fate of an elderly Wembley widow, Mrs Rain ford, while listening with a wireless set. According to her daughter, she apparently was violently thrown backwards, her earphones attached to a crystal set, emitting sparks, as also <li< 1 her spertncles, which she held in her kit hawl which was considerably hunted, but were still grasping a small electric read ing lamp. She had previously complained of shock while holding the lamp when listening. Strangely enough Airs Rainford was an expert electrologist, and was in the business in the West End of London. “I. clo not think that wireless can be associated with Mrs Rainford’s death It certainly was not due to the current from the crystal set, through which only the faintest current is transmit fed over the other, ’’ says a broardcasting corporation official. “Site apparently received a shock from a defective electric light main through tho lamp. There is not the slightest danger to the listener-in using the present eliminators connecting the valve sets with the electric light currents and eliminating batteries.