Context Note: Son of Joseph Duffield by Emma Jane (Wallbank) Duffield.
CYCLIST’S WEAK HEART.
Victor Duffield, aged 24, a motor mechanic, was found dead in the road at Olton, near Birmingham. A motor car had struck him, but the doctor at the inquest said the injuries caused by the car were slight, and he attributed Duffield’s death to a weak diseased heart, which caused him to fall from his bicycle. The jury returned a verdict accordingly, and attached no blame to the driver of the motor.
(Gloucester Citizen, 30th December 1921)
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