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On Friday night, the 12<sup>th<\/sup> inst., he was walking home from Oxenholme railway station, having been on a visit with his daughter to Lancaster. It appears that a motor car came along, and Duckett stepped in to the side of the road behind his daughter, catching his face in a rose bush which was hanging over the\u00a0 wall. At the time he entertained the fear that his eye had been injured, but when he arrived home it was found that only the flesh at the corner of his eye had been lacerated. Miss Duckett attended to the wound, and next morning at 4 45 her father went to work feeling better. He retired to bed that night about nine o\u2019clock, but at 12 30 Miss Duckett was disturbed by her father\u2019s laboured and heavy breathing. She gave him some milk and bathed his eye with hot fomentations, later calling in Dr. Edgcumbe from Kendal. The doctor attended him up to the time of his death, which occurred at 6 45 p.m. on the 20<sup>th<\/sup> inst.<\/p>\n<p>At the inquest, which was held at the deceased\u2019s home, the Coroner returned a verdict that death was due to heart failure following blood poisoning accidentally received from a scratch by a rose thorn.<\/p>\n<p><em>Lancashire Evening Post, 26 November 1926<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. G. E. Cartmel (Coroner for South Westmorland) held an inquest on the body of William Duckett (67) of 15, Helmside, Oxenholme, an engine driver employed by the L.M.S. Railway Company. Duckett, it was stated, was a widower and lived with his daughter, Mary Jane Duckett. 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