ECHO OF AIR CRASH.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18626, 26 February 1926, Page 15

ECHO OF AIR CRASH.

i EVIDENCE IN COURT. t. (AUgTBAUAJ? N.Z. CAM,* ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, February a*. An echo of thq terrible airplane dis. aster at Croydon on Ohristsnag Eve of 1994 was heard in .the- Probate Court, wheuTthe Crown applied, for letter of administration in the estate of Archibald Sproston, and i : declaration that he left no widow. Sproaton and.his wife and the former's uncle were killed in the crash. If the wife had survived her husband she would have been entitled to the estate. If Sproston had survived the, unclq he would have inherited £SOOO more. A model of tha "piano was exhibited in Court, also photiQgraphj of the actual wreckage. , The evidence submitted showed that the bodjes were all in a heap, We wife xwlerneath, with a deep bone wound in the forehead, resulting in laceration of the lobe of the brain sufficient to cause instantaneous de&tl?. The husband had fractured Ma pelvig, not necessarily causing, immediate death. The doctor, who was on the ecene before the flames were subdued, gave evidence that the woman's body was the only one likely to have life, but ho found no heartbeats, Jlp could not say who had died first. Another doctor who had conducted post-mortem examinations repeated the opinion he expressed at "the inquett, that the wife predeceased her husband. The hearing was adjourned.