BOY ELECTROCUTED.
KILLED WHILE PLAYING. By Teleffrapli.-lt'res! Association. Dittiedin, Last Night. James Caskie, a telegraph messenger, fifteen years of age,\mng in Cumberland Street, was electrocuted last night about nine o'clock in Reserve known as tho Triangle, in Lower High Street. Caskie was swinging on one of the wire stays of a flagpole, when a high wind blew it against an electric power wire. This probably .carried a current of about 17(H) volts, and Caskio must have been killed instantaneously. At the inquest this afternoon, a formal verdict was returned.
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 June 1920, Page 4
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89BOY ELECTROCUTED. Taranaki Daily News, 7 June 1920, Page 4
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