BOY ELECTROCUTED.
SAD ACCIDENT NEAR STRATFORD. New Plymouth, May 18. The Stratford correspondent of the Daily News telephoned tonight that a schoolboy named Webberley had been electrocuted there to-day. The Electric Light Company received word that one of its wires was down and two linesmen were dispatched up the Opunake road. They presently found that the wire had been dislodged from its crossbar by the gale and was close to the ground. Proceeding further, one of the men found the boy clinging to the wire quite dead. He was returning home from school, and evidently had caught hold of the dangling wire, which at that point was only a couple of feet off the ground. Death would be instantaneous. Webberley’s father is a labourer living on the Opunake road.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1247, 19 May 1914, Page 3
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129BOY ELECTROCUTED. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1247, 19 May 1914, Page 3
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