BROADCASTER ELECTROCUTED.
CHICAGO, July 11. Thousands of radio listeners are wondering why station WOK did not. respond to enthusiastic -encores after broadcasting dance music from, the Moonlight Gardens. at the Chicago Beach Hotel last night. Death stepped in and denied the request. Lester J. Wolf, age£ nineteen, one of the youngest licensed broadcasters in the country, was electrocuted., He had just completed a number, when a fuse in the battery room blew out. Wolf ran to the fuse, and, leaning against an iron pipe, started to instal a new one, forgetting to disconnect the power. Sixty-five hundred volts of electricity shot through -his body, -throwing him. to the floor. “I am not "hurt,” he gasped, as he struggled to his feet, but immediately became unconscious and died in a few moments. This is said to be the first fatality of its kind in the United States. Thet case was adjourned.
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Shannon News, 27 August 1926, Page 3
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150BROADCASTER ELECTROCUTED. Shannon News, 27 August 1926, Page 3
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