CARPENTER’S SUDDEN DEATH
INQUEST HELD AT RANGIORA A verdict that death was due to coronary thrombosis was returned by the district coroner (Mr H. A. Young; at an inquest at Rangiora yesterday afternoon into the death of Frederick Baldwin, aged 49, a married man with three children, living at 17 Rata street, St. Martins, who dropped dead at his work at Rangiora on Monday afternoon. Baldwin was employed by Keir and Thompson, Ltd., and was working at a house in course of erection. Dr. L. M. King said that Baldwin was dead when he arrived. After a post-mortem examination it was the witness’s opinion that death was due to coronary thrombosis. , Evidence of identification was given by Joseph Baldwin (Christchurch), brother of the dead man, who said his brother was apparently in good health. Charles Walter Anderson and Harry Maynard Hawkins, fellow-employees of Baldwin, said they had not heard Baldwin complain of ill-health. Before his death he was picking up 4 x 2in studs and propping them against the building, but there was notnlng strenuous about this work. Baldwin died within a minute of falling.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21973, 23 December 1936, Page 6
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