KILLED BY A TREE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19475, 9 May 1925, Page 15

KILLED BY A TREE.

WHILE ASLEEP IN' CAB. ADA CBOSSLEY’S BROTHER. Mr E. W. Crossley, superintendent of the Mercantile Marino of the Australian Navigation Department, and a brother of Madame Ada Crossley, the well-known singer, was killed by a falling tree recently. Accompanied by his wife and two eons, Mr Crossley was returning to Melbourne after a tour by motor oar. After leaving. Wood’s Point, Mr Wallis Crossley, one of the sons, who was driving, in order to avoid a bad patch of road, made a detour, and the car became bogged. The party was obliged to camp for the night. Mrs Crossley and the younger son returned to a patrol man’s hut a mile and a-half away. Mr Crossley and the other boy slept in the car. but about daylight the son was awakened by a crash, and saw a large tree falling across the back of the car, where his fatner was asleep. Mr Crossley was probably killed, instantly. , _ , , The back of the car was badly damaged, and the escape of the son is regarded as remarkable When he found that ho could do nothing, he went to the hut. and, fearing to 101 l his mother the truth, told her of the aceidont. and said that his father was badly hurt and unconscious. Accompanied by the younger son, she walked 14 miles to Mailock to obtain assistance. Meantime Wallis returned to the scene of the disaster, and, assisted by a man camped nearby, cut part of the car away and released the body.