SHOCKS FROM A POOL.
STRONG ELECTRIC CURRENT.
VALUABLE DOG KILLED,
A valuable Alsatian dbg was killed in astonishing circumstances on the footpath, Crayford, Kent, recently. It was walking quietly by its owner’s, side when it began to howl, and fell on its side in a pool of . water. It writhed in agony for a moment and then died. L
Its owner, Mr. Mathew, bent over the dog’s body, but he had no sooner touched it than he staggered away in pain. t
A small crowd had gathered by this tiiiie, and it was noticed that those who stepped near the water in which the dog was lying received more or jess severe electric shocks. Then, to every one’s amazement, a small girl ran into the centre of the pool and stood by the dog unharmed.
Some one cried out that the child’s immunity was due to the fact that she wore jrubber-soled shoes, and the crowd again. drew hack in fear from the “electric pool.” A danger zone was marked out, and the police guarded the spot until an electrician arrived to clear up the mystery. It was found that a strong, electric current was leaking from an underground cable through the soil, which had been saturated by the recent, heavy rains. Power was at once, switched off.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3685, 1 September 1927, Page 1
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218SHOCKS FROM A POOL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3685, 1 September 1927, Page 1
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