MAN ELECTROCUTED
(Received Last JJight, 8.55 o'clock.) SIDNEY, January 2o! A man named Jones, working on a New Zealand electric rock driller, was fatally electrocuted. He was standing on the wet frame-work of the motor. The vibration caused the drill to fall across the motor amd form a current tnruugh Jones' body. His mate, in trying to release him, sustained two severe shocks.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10542, 26 January 1912, Page 5
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63MAN ELECTROCUTED Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10542, 26 January 1912, Page 5
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