A MAN ELECTROCUTED.
Wellington, Yesterday.
A man named William Wilson, while driving a timber waggon near Miramar whaff Cm Saturday afternoon, was killed by contact with a live electric lighting wire. Wilson was driving timber froth the wharf. There was a fallen wire lying across the road and he jumped off his cart to pick the wire up, in order to allow the Miramar ‘bus to pass. Immediately he touched the Wire he fell. He did not rise again l , The palm of the left hand add the tips of the fihgers are stated to have been [badly marked where the" wire pburned them. Wilson’s body was [[conveyed to the morgue.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3723, 6 November 1906, Page 4
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111A MAN ELECTROCUTED. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3723, 6 November 1906, Page 4
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