MAN FALLS TO DEATH

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28490, 21 January 1958, Page 10

MAN FALLS TO DEATH

Body Found On Roadway (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, January 20. A man fell to his death from scaffolding around the Union Steam Ship Company’s building on the corner of Customhouse quay and Johnston street, Wellington, just after noon today. He was Mr Edmund Douglas Crossley, aged 39, married, of-River-side drive, Taita. Mr Crossley was a Lower Hutt importer. The police said there were no witnesses to his death. A pedestrian saw a man’s body lying huddled between the Johnston street tram rails. He ran to the central police station about 200 yards away and reported the matter. Police who examined the building said Mr Crossley apparently had fallen from the scaffolding where workmen have been removing cornices from the building and altering the frontage. The building was deserted and no work was proceeding on the exterior. Mr Crossley apparently gained i the scaffold from a ladder which reached up to one-storey height. Other ladders took him further up the scaffold to the point where he fell.

CAR AND TRUCK COLLIDE Two Injured A mother and her young son were taken to the Christchurch Public Hospital from near Oxford on Saturday afternoon, after a collision on a bend of Gammon’s road between, a large lorry and a touring car. The boy, Russell Campbell, aged 11, who was a passenger in the car driven by his mother, Mrs Jane Campbell, of 11 Biretta street, Spreydon, was admitted to hospital suffering from a suspected fractured pelvis and abrasions to the head. The back part of the car had been torn away by the impact and the boy was thrown to the roadway. Mrs Campbell, who suffered a leg injury and shock, was sent to hospital for observation, but was treated and sent home. Five other small children in the car were not injured. > The lorry driver, Robert Marsh O’Laughlin, of 20 Torrens road, Addington, also escaped injury. The accident occurred about 2 p.m., some four miles towards the Woodside road, from Oxford. Dr. P. Lambah, of Oxford, attended to the injured at the scene of the accident.