ELECTROCUTED.
“LIVE” FENCE DEALS OUT DEATH. Te Awamutu, Last Night. A sensation is reported from Te Rore settlement, 10 miles from Te Awamutu. About eight o’clock this morning, a well-known settler, named Llewellyn Henrlekson. while driving a herd of cows across a road, touched a fence and was fatally electrocuted. His wife noticed Henrickson on the ground and, thinking a bull had gored him, ran to assist, calling two neighbours, Coxhead and McKinnon, and Coxhead’s employee John Carruthers, a recent arrival from Canada. Carruthers went to turn the cows into a paddock and touched the fence, sustaining a severe electric shock and bad burns across the back and left hand. Car'ruthers was removed to the Waikato Hospital. One cow belonging to Hennckson and a mare belonging to another neighbour (Garrett) and Coxhead’s dog were all fatally electrocuted. A bitten was found beneath some 300 volt broken wires, 200 yards away. It is surmised the bitten flew into the wires, knocking them together, and causing a break. One wire fell on the fence, electrifying it for 300 yards, The deceased Henrickson was a highly respected returned soldier, and leaves a widow and two young children.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2850, 24 February 1925, Page 3
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194ELECTROCUTED. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2850, 24 February 1925, Page 3
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