Electrocuted.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 23, 19 May 1914, Page 5

Electrocuted.

STRATFORD BOY KILLED. ON OPUNAKE ROAD. A most distressing fatality «•- curred in Stratford yesterday. the Electrical Supply Co. wer* advised yesterday evening that on* of the light wires needed attention, and two linesmen were despatched to th* scene, • near the Borough boundary. They found that the heavy wind had dislodged a wire from the cross-bars, the wire hanging a few feet from th* roadway. One of the linesmen followed th* wire, and was greatly shocked to find the dead body of a boy, the hands clinging to the wire. Dr. Steven was called up at one*, but could only pronounce life to b* extinct. Death must have been instantaneous. The unfortunate boy was named Henry James William Webberley.aged nine and a half years, whose father lives on Opunake Road. Nobody saw the occurrence, but th* hoy was going home from school. Hi# little hands were burnt to a cinder, breaking off at the wrists, and th* body rolled away from ther wire.. The inquest will probably b* held to-morrow.