ALMOST ELECTROCUTED.
BOY'S FRIGHTFUL EXPERIENCE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Duneum, Last Night. Yesterday afternoon a lad named James Martin, employed by Messrs. A. and T. Burt, and working at the installing of electric light, received a bad shock. He did not know the current 'lad boon turned ,on, and seized one of Jio wires, at tlic same time catcling lold of an iron pipe. This complete.] he circuit, and the lad received the hock from th« alternating current of M volts, 11" was nnnble to release limsolf, and when Mr. Reynolds (tlr - "' and r
electrician) answered his' erics and got the current switched off and the hov frei', his hands were frightfully burnt and his face badly cut through contact with the floor, induced by the agony he suffered. Be had sustained a shock for nearly two minutes, and a few sounds more would probably have meant death.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 186, 10 September 1909, Page 2
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147ALMOST ELECTROCUTED. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 186, 10 September 1909, Page 2
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