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Blue Mountains · Accidents

Accidents, 1914

5 stories in Blue Mountains's papers

Sad Fatality

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 17 April 1914 · page 3

Mrs. D. G. Chancer, of Waverley, was un spending the Easter holidays with her sister, Mrs. Soaton, of Muri-street, when she had the misfortune to lose her…

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The Bathurst Road Collision. Owen Committed for Trial

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 17 April 1914 · page 5

John Owen was charged before Mr. T. B. Clegy, P.M., at the Police Court yesterday with having on the 16th March, 1914, at Katoomba, mallelously inflicted…

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Accident to Mr. Chas. Wooller

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 1 May 1914 · page 4

It is with regret we record a serious accident which befel Katoomba's enthusiastic show man, Mr. Chas. Wooller. He was out for a constitutional and when…

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Local and General. Accident at Wentworth Falls

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 24 July 1914 · page 4

On Tuesday evening last, a boy name Ted Lindsay, son of Mr. G. B. Lindsay, of Wentworth Falls Post Office, met with a painful accident. He was…

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Motors in Collision. Charge of Negligent Driving

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 13 November 1914 · page 3

Thomas Dillinger, a motor driver employed by Mr. J. M. Ellis, of Wentworth Falls, was summoned at the Katoomaba Police Court for negligently…

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