SUDDEN DEATH
A telephone message from Cricklewood to Timaru yesterday morning conveyed the tidings of the sudden death of Mr Charles Frederick Melton. The deceased, a man of 37 years, and apparently in perfect health, was out shooting with his nephew Dr Gunn and Mr McBeath. They were walking some distance apart in pursuit of hares, and his companions noticed that Mr Melton had sat down. For a time they supposed he had done so to light his pipe, but hearing him groan they went to him and found him unconscious. Dr Cooke was sent for from Fairlie, and meantime efforts were made to restore consciousness, but in vain, and Mr Melton was dead before Dr Cooke arrived. Deceased was the youngest son of the late Mr John Melton, an early settler in Timaru, and a brother of Mr John Melton, a well known officer of the Timaru Post Office, but now in the Dunedin office, and Mrs Wm. Gunn is a sister of the deceased. He was master of a dredge in the Cardrona district, and the dredges there having to cease work on account of the frosty weather, he had come up to Timaru for a few days of his enforced holiday, while his wife went to her friends at Winton, and was there confined of her third child a few days ago. The cause of death is supposed to be heart disease, but the case is unusual, as the deceased had never been ill in his life, and appeared to be a strong and healthy man. Deceased was familiarly known in Timaru years ago as "Tat" Melton, and his friends of those days will remember him as a young man of particularly cheerful disposition and fond of any sort of innocent fun. An inquest will be held at Cricklewood this morning. -Timaru Herald, 14/7/1906.
An inquest on the body of the late Mr Charles Frederick Melton was held on Saturday morning at Cricklewood before Mr R. L. Banks, J.P., and the following jury: - S. Kidd, D. O'Connor, D. Hosie, J. Bain, A. Kennedy, and D. McKay. The verdict was in accordance with Dr Cook's certificate that death was due to heart disease. -Timaru Herald, 16/7/1906.
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