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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1928

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Fell Down Coal Chute Horses Terribly Injured. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 March 1928 · page 5

Terrible injuries were received by two horses at Hoskins' new mine, Lithgow, yesterday when they fell down a coal chute. Their backs were broken and they…

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Domestic Row? Darlinghurst Affray Man Injured, Wife Arrested. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 March 1928 · page 4

Declaring that lie had been slashed by a razor gang a crippled man, who was covered with blood, alighted from a taxi cab at the Sydney hospital last night and…

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Maori Belle Injured

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 March 1928 · page 2

While galloping at the Coraki track on Saturday morning Maori Belle slipped a muscle in her leg, and it will be a few days before she is able to use the limb…

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Local and General Man Seriously Injured

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 March 1928 · page 4

Frederick Jones (42), farmer, of Duro- by Creek, Bilambil, met with a serious accident on Wednesday when a horse he was riding fell and rolled on him. He…

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On the Rocks Boating Accident at Wool Nasty Experience of Three Coff's Harbor Men. Ulmarra

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 March 1928 · page 4

On Thursday evening three men from Coff's Harbor were enjoying a fishing excursion off the coast at Wooli in a motor boat, owned by Mr. Mcllwran. There…

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Axle Broken One Killed, Five Injured. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 March 1928 · page 5

William Burg, a miner, of New Lambton was killed and live other men injured when the back axle of a motor ear broke and the car overturned on Raymond…

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Hit by Car Man Fatally Injured. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 March 1928 · page 4

While crossing William street to-night Henry Jones, 64, was knocked down and seriously injured by a motor car. lie died shortly after admission to hospital…

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Fell Off Bridge Old Man Seriously Injured. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 March 1928 · page 4

William Henry Brightwell, 83, fell 50 feel from a suspension bridge at Parsley Bay to-day. He was taken to Hospital suffering from a fractured leg and skull…

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Pearifle Accident

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 March 1928 · page 7

A serious pea rifle accident occured in the camp of the McDemett family near the Ben Lomond village on Friday evening. It appears that the son,…

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Boy Drowned. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 March 1928 · page 4

Frederick Clarke, 13, was drowned in a creek at Canterbury during yesterday's storm. Usually the creek bed is almost dry, but it floods quickly after…

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£500 Damages Woman Injured in Motor Accident. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 March 1928 · page 5

The jury returned a verdict of £500 for the plaintiff, in the case before Mr. Justice James to-day, in which Mary O'Shannassy sued Stewart McPhee, engineer,…

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Injured Miner Succumbs. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 March 1928 · page 4

James Plunkett, who was gassed in a gold mine at, Hurstbridge on Monday night and fell to the bottom of the shaft, fracturing his skull, died in hospital last…

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Youth Drowned Washed Off Horse. Cowra

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 March 1928 · page 5

While crossing the Lachlan River on his horse to-day G. C. Crookston, 17, was swept away and drowned. Crookston was a Dreadnought boy and had only been…

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Lashed to Boat Man Drowned Two Others' Reach Shore. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 March 1928 · page 5

A man named Wade is believed to have been drowned when a skiff containing three men overturned in Botany Bay last night…

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Victim of Train Accident Dies. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 March 1928 · page 7

Myra Jean Coldin, who was run down by a train at a level crossing at Eastwood last night, died subsequently in hospital…

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Morora Mill fatality. Coroner's Inquest

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 23 March 1928 · page 1

On Wednesday Mr. Chas. Walker. J. P. Coroner at Coffs Harbour, went to Morora Creak, Dorrigo, and held an inquest concerning the death…

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Mixed Up in Collision Where Owner Found Stolen Car Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 March 1928 · page 5

At St. Kilda last night a car disappeared during the owner's temporary absence. He was on his way to the police station to report his loss when lie saw an…

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FELL 120 FEET Two Workmen Killed Seven Others Injured Scaffolding Collapsed. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 March 1928 · page 5

Two men were killed and seven others injured when the scaffolding collapsed at a new building being erected for the Hotel Metropole in…

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Claim for £4000 Result of Car Collision. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 March 1928 · page 4

In the Supreme Court to-day, James Hector Bordon Sandes, 22, an engineering student, at the Sydney University, brought an action against Christian Nielson…

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Ambulance Activities Horse Trainee Injured

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 March 1928 · page 2

At 11.15 a.m. on Saturday last, the Grafton Ambulance received a call from Glenreagh. Mr. H. Burgess, horse trainer, who resides at Glenreagh with his family,…

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