WOMAN ELECTROCUTED
Touching an electric radiator while taking a. bath shortly after 10 o’clock on Sunday niglit, Mrs. Minnie Spinks, aged 48 years, of Ola Hamilton Road, Kilbirnic, Wellington, received an electric shock so severe that she expired a few minutes later. Mrs. Spinks, as was her usual custom, took a 230-volt electric radiator with her into the bathroom to warm herself after the bath. She bad been in the bath lor about five or six minutes when the family in another room heard her screaming for aid. Mr. Spinks found his wife unconscious in the hath with her wet band still grasping the top portion of [he heater. Mr. Spinks received a. severe shock when he afctempjed to free her. The current ceased when the fuse at the switchboard blew. Artificial respiration was applied when Mrs. Spinks was talken to a bed, but when Dr. Tennant arrived die was extinct. It would appear from the position in which Mrs. Spinks was found that she was just about to leave the 'bath when she put- out her right hand to move the heater to another position and received the shock.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4547, 23 December 1930, Page 3
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190WOMAN ELECTROCUTED Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4547, 23 December 1930, Page 3
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