AN ELECTRIC LIGHT ACCIDENT.
LAD SERIOUSLY INJURED
[Ter Press association.! DUNEDIN, Sept, 9. Y’esterday afternoon a lad named James Alartin, employed, by Alessrs A. and T. Burt, and working at the installing of the electric light, received a bad shock. He did not know that the current had been, turned on and seized one of the wires, at the same time clutching an iron pipe. This completed the circuit, ana the lad received a shock from an alternating current of 230 volts. He was unable to release himself, and when Air. Reynolds (electrician) answered his cries and got the current switched, off and the boy free his hands were frightfully burned and his face badly cut through contact with the floor induced by the ao-ony he suffered. He had sustained the shock for nearly two minutes, and a few seconds more would probably hare meant death.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2603, 10 September 1909, Page 5
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146AN ELECTRIC LIGHT ACCIDENT. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2603, 10 September 1909, Page 5
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