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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Accidents

Accidents, 1916

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Shooting Accident Visitor Seriously Injured. No Hope of Recovery Head Out

The Bathurst Times · Saturday 1 January 1916 · page 2

As the result of a bullet wound received accidentally while rabbit-shooting near Perthville yesterday morning, William Charles Fenton, age…

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Fatal Railway Accident. Man's Head Crushed. Cootamundra

The Bathurst Times · Saturday 1 January 1916 · page 5

A fatal accident occurred in the local railway yards last night when an unknown man was knocked down by a shunting engine. His left leg was cut…

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Pea Rifle Again Accident at Perthville. Fatal Results Probable. Visitor's Sad Ending to Holiday

National Advocate · Saturday 1 January 1916 · page 2

As a result of a most unfortunate termination to a rabbit shooting excursion at Perthville, Wm. Charles Fenton was admitted to the Bathurst…

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Bicycle Collision

Leader · Monday 3 January 1916 · page 1

On Friday, while Ernie Milier, son of M[?]. Charlio Miller, was turning around Clinton street into Moulder st on his bicycle, he collided with…

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Pea Rifle Fatality

National Advocate · Monday 3 January 1916 · page 2

As a result of the unfortunate pea rifle accident at Perthville on Friday, William Charles Fenton (33) died at Bathurst District Hospital on Saturday…

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Fatality Narrowly Averted

Leader · Monday 3 January 1916 · page 6

On Friday morning last Mr. Bert Woolbank had what can be termed a miraculous escape from death, at Molong, and we are pleased to say,…

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Women Injured. Alleged Assaults at North Sydney. Sydney

The Bathurst Times · Monday 3 January 1916 · page 3

Two women were admitted to the Royal North Shore Hospital this morning suffering from injuries, alleged to be the outcome of assaults…

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Persia Sunk More Murder on High Seas. Most of Passengers and Crew Drowned. London

National Advocate · Monday 3 January 1916 · page 2

The Peninsula Co's steamer Persia, bound for Bomlbay, was sunk on Thursday. Most of the passengers and crow were drowned. There were…

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SUNK P. AND O. Liner Submarined in East Most of Passengers and Crew Drowned. ?Econd Lusitania Case. Americans on Board. Complications with U.S.A. LONDON

The Bathurst Times · Monday 3 January 1916 · page 2

The steamer Persia, while on a voyage to Bombay, was sunk on Thursday afternoon. Most of the passengers and crew…

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Shooting Accident Proves Fatal

The Bathurst Times · Monday 3 January 1916 · page 2

Mr. William Charles Fenton, age 32, who was admitted to the Bathurst Hospital on Friday, having sustained a rifle bullet wound while rabbit…

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Bathurst Shooting Accident

Leader · Monday 3 January 1916 · page 1

As the result of a bullet wound received accidentally while rabbit shooting near Perthville, on Friday morning, William Charles Fenton, aged 32…

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Pea Rifle Accident

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 3 January 1916 · page 2

Yesterday afternoon Mr. Clifford Gilham, son of Mr. Charles Gillbam, of Mudgee, met with an accident which early might have proved fatal…

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Snake Causes Accident-

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 3 January 1916 · page 3

As a couple of district residents were driving into town in a sulky on Friday afternoon they met with a peculiar, accident when Hearing Cox's River Bridge, on the…

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Two Girls Drowned Bathing Fatality. Bodies Recovered. Narrandera

The Bathurst Times · Tuesday 4 January 1916 · page 4

Two girls, Ivy Kippen (19) and Eileen Boydon, were drowned in the Murrumbidgee River yesterday. A party of girls were bathing, and…

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The Deadly "22." Perthville Shooting Fatality. Coronial Inquiry in Bathurst Verdict of Accidental Death

The Bathurst Times · Tuesday 4 January 1916 · page 4

The New Year has not dawned happily for the wife and unsuspecting infant child of William Charles Fenton, a visitor from Lidcombe, who…

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Rabbit's Fateful Bound the Perthville Fatality. William Charles Fenton's Death Investigated. Verdict. of Accidental Death

National Advocate · Tuesday 4 January 1916 · page 3

The circumstances by which Mr. William Charles Fenton (33), an Eveleigh boiler maker, died in the Bathurst Hospital on Saturday morning,…

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Two Girls Drowned Bathing in the Murrumbidgee. Narrandera

National Advocate · Tuesday 4 January 1916 · page 2

Ivy Kippen, 19, and Pauline Boynton, 14, were drowned in the Murrumbidget River whilst bathing…

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Persia the Torpedoing Hundreds of Lives Lost Details of the Outrage. Liner Sinks in Five Minutes. Only Pew Boats Launched. American Consul Drowned Big Problem for U.S.A. LONDON

The Bathurst Times · Tuesday 4 January 1916 · page 2

The Cairo correspondent of "The Times" telegraphs that the survivors of the P. and O. liner Persia, torpedoed in the Mediterranean state…

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Sensational Railway Accident Trucks Climb a Bank. and Dash on to Footpath Some Narrow Escapes. Sydney

National Advocate · Tuesday 4 January 1916 · page 2

A train containing 22 trucks of wheat, became detached from the engine at Clyde station, on Saturday afternoon, and broke away, crashing…

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Racecourse Collision. Sydney

National Advocate · Wednesday 5 January 1916 · page 2

While riding Lavendo in a gallop at Randwick, David Gilthorne, an apprentice of R. O'Connor's, a Randwick trainer, broke his leg in a…

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