Inquest at Weraroa

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 June 1915, Page 3

Inquest at Weraroa

This morning an inquest was held it the dwelling-house of Mr Josiah Bovey. at Weraroa, on the body of his wife, who died suddenly yesterday uoruing. After hearing evidence, Mr Nation, the coroner, returned a verlict of "died from natural causes." Josiah Bovey deposed: I am the husjand of the deceased and am a labour. ;r employed a/t the Experimental Farm ind reside at Mako Mako road, Levin. My wife's age was 47 years, and she ias always enjoyed fairly good' health. Yesterday morning I had breakfast Wtti my wife as usual and left the louse about 7.30. My wife had had >reakfast and was about the house at ler usual work. About 9.15 I revived a message that I was wanted lome, as my .wife was ill. I came loino and found she was dead. She said, on Sunday, that she had a bit if a heartache, hut at dinner-time it ivas.gone. . In the afternoon she was in ler usual health. Robert Bryson: I am a medical man ■esiding at Levin. Yesterday rnornng about quarter past nine I called 5n Bovey on the Mako Mako road. I arrived at about half past and found ■' le body of Mrs Bovey lying on the 3oor in a back room with her head supported on a mattress. On examination I found froth coming from the mouth. There was no sign of life, and io marks of violence were visible. The body was waPm. -Death must have Ijeen recent. Mrs Bovey was a very stout woman. From her little boy, Seorge. I learned that she had complained of a severe pain in the head, ind that she fell on the bed and then rolled off on the floor. lam of opin:on that death was due to apoplexy. George Bovey, sworn: I am eleven (•ears of age and in the first standard it school. Mrs Bovey was my mother. Father hikl his breakfast and had gone to work; then mother came to me and told me to get up as she had a bad lieadacho, and to go over and tell my :busin, Mrs Storey, that she could not come because she had a bad headache, f got tip and.told mother to lie down. She laid on the bed and was rolling jfF when I stopped her. She said she was all right. Soon after she rolled off €he bed on to the floor, and was Breathing hard; she did not speak and Froth came from the mouth. I went over to Mr Storey's, and he came over, and a man who was passing by came with him. They pulled the mattress off the bed- and put the body of mother DB it.