DEAD IN BATH
(Press. Assn.-
YOUTH WITH WIRELESS EARPHONES ON HEAD WIRE PLUGGED TO HOT-POINT
— By Telegraph— Copyright).
WELLINGTON, Thursday. Leigh Holdsworth Auton, aged 19, helonging to Karamea, West Coast, and boarding in Brooklyn, Wellington, for abont two weeks, went last evening to have a bath. A few minutes later another boarder, hearing a eurious noise, went to the door and found it locked. He then went round to the window, but this
was locked also. He got a screwdriver and opened a fanlight and then saw Anton lying in a bath with a pair of radio headphones on. He forceed an entry and endeavoured to remove the 'phones, but received a shoclc, whereupon he emptied the bath, turned off the switch, and called the police. The police tried artificial respiration for an hour, but Auton was dead. The set was a home-made crystal set, and it appears that Auton had plugged in a length of wire from the set to a hot-point to act as an aerial.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 94, 11 December 1931, Page 5
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