Show I I TELEPHONE SHOCK HIRE LITE CIl Faulty insulation of a Ben Bell telephone instrument in the tho apartment of Mrs rs Jenta Melton Jelton Melon a well known music Jent teacher eacher living at No 5 Oxford apart apart- lents ments on West North Temple street was responsible for the tho injury of lit lit- lt tc tIc Ic Morell Melton her ber dau daughter G 6 years cars carsol old ol Id last night eight Ii ht The Tho telephone bell ben ran rang and aud as ss is ie her custom the little girl answered tho the can call As she sho took the rece receiver er from the ho hook she sho received a shock that nearly early rendered her her unconscious unconscious She was unable to drop the instrument wa which is if a. a a desk telephone and received the he full fun strength th of the tho current The little girls girl's irl Jf grandmother ther Mrs Smith who was in an adjoining room beard jeard tho the child scream and ran to her ber herid aid id grasping the insulated wires and thus bus pulling tho the instrument from tho the hild's hilds hands hand Tho The little girls girl's irl's lefthand loft left loftland Jef land hand was badly burned in the palm and on the thumb The greatest injury was 35 to her nervous nervous ner nero OU system however as the child is till still weak from an attack of diphtheria from rom which she JS it on only oily convalescent Her lor heart beart was waR s weakened b by her reent re- re cent ent illness and nd it was feared for a aimo time imo that serious results might follow last ast ni nights night's accident An employee of the telephone company corn com pan pany who inv investigated t the tho cause ClURe of tho the accident later in the day said sad that the defect lay in the tho telephone instrument and nd that that other cases of a 1 similar kind kina have hac lave been reported The fault lies lie with wih the manufacturers of the tele tele- ho he said and not noC with the local company The telephone employee said aid that the little ittle girl gir mi might ht have received a shock of from seventy five sc c to volts volta vols through the instrument though there was no means of knowin knowing just how heavy a charge e had har passed through her body ody The child is resting e easy sy today to today day and shows but little ill i effects of ot other her mishap with wih the possible exception of tho the burns burs on her hand |