HEART FAILURE.
ASHBURTON MAN'S DEATH In accordance with medical evidence the District Coroner (Mr E. C. Bathurst) returned a verdict that death was due to heart failure, at the inquest yesterday into the death of Charles Ogilvie Davidson, aged 56, of 11 Alford Forest Road. Davidson died suddenly on Friday night at the Ashburton woollen mills. Evidence of identification was given by Peter Black. Thomas Andrew Reid said that at about 8.50 on Friday evening when he entered the boiler room he met de ceased, who entered the boiler room in front of him and went through to the engine room and sat down on a box. Witness was standing near the coal hopper in front of the boiler when he heard a thump and turning round saw deceased lying face downwards on the floor just through the doorway of the engine room. Witness attempted to turn deceased over but as deceased was in a very awkward position he was unable to move him. He called for assistance and a doctor was tele phoned for at once.
Dr. W. R. Ryburn said that life was extinct when he arrived. He attributed .death to heart failure.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 250, 4 August 1941, Page 6
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