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St. Joseph Daily Press
Thursday, 15 June 1905


         "Trouble Man" in Fatal Trouble.
         
         Middleville, Mich., June 15. - GROVER BETTS,
       aged 21, "trouble" man for the Citizens' Tele-
       phone company, of this place, met instant death
       while stringing some telephone wire. It came in
       contact with a live wire from the Thornapple
       Electric company's line and an electric current
       of 25,000 volts passed through his body, strip-
       ping the flesh from his arms and killing him
       instantly.
       
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