YOUTH ELECTROCUTED
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CONNECTED RADIO SET TO HOUSE LIGHTING SYSTEM EVIDENCE AT INQUEST
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WELLINGTON, Tuesday. "A crystal set is a perfectly safe instrument for anyone to use," said Mr. McNeil, coroner, at the inquest on Leigh Holdsworth Auton, who was found dead in a bath,, "but if the user, under a mistaken idea that he is improving the working of the set, connects it up to a source of electric power in the house, an action which is absolutely unnecessary, he is creating an extremely dangerons condition and running a very grave risk of being electrocuted." Mr. Wilcocks, chief inspector of the Wellington Corporation Lighting Department, said he understood the cover of the switch of a hot point had been taken off and the set connected to a live wire hy a twist. Apart from the youth being in the bath this was a dangerous thing to do. It was just ] eourting disaster and was against the j regulations. A verdict was returned that deceased died of electjocution. The Coroner stressed on the publie that it was an offenee to touch an electrie jnstallation in any house.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 98, 16 December 1931, Page 5
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