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Show ELECTRIC SHOCK MffiDHTI Heavy Voltage Kills Boy Who Grasps High Tension Wires. Special to The Tribune. MURRAY, Sept. 2. Leroy Freeman, 10 years of age. was instantly killed yesterday afternoon when he took hold of a high tension electric, wire on a Denver Den-ver & Rio Grande trestle, three miles southwest of this city. The boy, with two companions, Clarence Clar-ence Wahlquist and Leo Bird, Jr., were playing on the trestle, when Leroy climbed to the top of the structure where a 2.'ico-volt wire of the Utah Power and Light company is strung. The boy grasped the wire with his left hand and death was instantaneous. Thu current was so .strong that virtually all the flesh was burned fmm the hand and some of the bones were burned in two. Clarence Wahlquist at once ran to his home and informed his father of the accident ac-cident and Mr. Wahlquist. accompanied by Leo Bird, Sr., went to the trestle and recovered the body. The mother and father of t he boy are said to have sep- ara ted some time ago and the mother has since died. For some time past he had been making his home with his grandmother, Mrs. Annie Freeman. Funeral services will be held Thursday Thurs-day afternoon at 2 o'clock from Gir.nt ward. |