DEATH FROM HEART FAILURE
(BY. TBLEBRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
CHRISTCHURCH, 21st Feb.
At the inquest on Charles Bookes, senior despatch clerk of the Christchurch Telegraph Office, the widow deposed that deceased rose between 6 and 7 o'clock yesterday morning, apparently in his usual state of health. He helped his nephew to unload some wood, and later complained of a pain in the cnest, but said he thought it was indigestion. Later witness was called by her son, and found deceased on the floor of a. bedroom. • The . doctor was called and .h« pronounced life extinct. A verdict was returned that death was caused by heart failure, due to degeneration of the heart muscle.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 46, 24 February 1920, Page 10
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