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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1932

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Desperate Fight Man Terribly Injured in Sydney. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 February 1932 · page 3

Edward Doyle, 52, of Foveaux street, Surry Hills, was critically injured during a desperate fight near his home this afternoon…

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Gaol Sensation Prisoner Shot Dead While Attempting to Escape Two Warders Injured. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 February 1932 · page 3

Reginald James Barker, 18, was shot dead by a warder while attempting to escape from the Metropolitan Gaol, Coburg, early this afternoon…

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Youth Drowned. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 March 1932 · page 6

Stanley Brown, 15, was drowned in Lake Macquarie yesterday, after falling from a boat at Cardiff Point, Belmont. A companion had a narrow escape when…

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Shocking Accident Knocked Down by Motor Cycle Mrs. A. R. Wotherspoon Badly Injured

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 March 1932 · page 4

Mrs. A. R. Wotherspoon, of Grafton, and for many years of Alumny Creek, was knocked down by a motor cycle while crossing College street…

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Boys with Pea-rifle Fatality in Victoria. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 March 1932 · page 5

Robert John Worland, 8, was accidentally shot dead at Cobden, by his 10 years old brother. The children were shooting parrots with a pea-rifle, which…

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Old Man Injured Fall from Moving Train

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 1 March 1932 · page 2

Robert Murray, aged 63 years, who was carrying his swag making for Brisbane, where his people reside, was seriously injured by a fall from a…

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"I'll Be Sacked" Injured Boy's First Thought Perth

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 March 1932 · page 5

John Cocks, 15, became conscious today for the first time since he was knocked down by a car on Thursday. "What is the matter?" he asked a…

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Two Farmers Killed in Car Accident. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 March 1932 · page 5

Matthew Costello, 36, and Thomas Roach, 59, farmers, of Winton, were killed near Benalla, when a motor car overturned. Costello died instantly, and…

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Phar Lap Horse Reported Injured 'Leg in Plaster Bandage' Stepped on a Stone. Agua Caliente

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 2 March 1932 · page 1

Phar Lap, who was scheduled to have a public work out on Sunday, stepped on a stone in the morning and injured a foot, compelling the…

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Injured by Gelignite

Daily Examiner · Thursday 3 March 1932 · page 4

Alfred Powell (38), married, a banana grower, of Gilston, near Southport (Q), was preparing to blow up a stump on his property with gelignite, when the…

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Child Drowned Fell Into Creek. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Thursday 3 March 1932 · page 4

Ivy Seccombe, three-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Seeeombe, of Larnook, wandered from home this afternoon while her parents were in the milk…

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Two Sisters Drowned Bodies Found in Creek. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 3 March 1932 · page 5

The bodies of two sisters, Alice and Heather Wooley, aged 21 and 18, respectively, were found at the bottom of a deep hole in Bream Creek to day. The…

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Swagman Injured Tried to Board Train. Coff's Harbor

Daily Examiner · Thursday 3 March 1932 · page 4

Robert Murray, 63, swagman, was seriously injured in attempting to board an early morning train at, Karangi station, while the train was moving. He…

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Unusual Accident

Daily Examiner · Thursday 3 March 1932 · page 4

An unusual scalding accident occurred to Cr. G. Murphy, of '' Cooee,'' Mullen gudgery, when returning from a trip to Sydney. Mr. Murphy, who is one of the…

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Pole Fell on Him Little Boy Injured Glenreagh Accident

Daily Examiner · Friday 4 March 1932 · page 4

Yesterday afternoon, a little, boy named Neville Swan, aged 3½ years, was brought, by the Grafton Ambulance from Glenreagh and placed in the District Hospital…

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Accident on Showground

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 4 March 1932 · page 5

A young man named Alex. Nolan had a nasty fall at the showground late yesterday afternoon. After the ring events had finished he was trying…

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Injured While Saving Horse

Daily Examiner · Saturday 5 March 1932 · page 4

Murrey Yabsley, a well-known grazier arid cricketer, was admitted to Coraki Hospital on Wednesday, suffering from injuries to his back. While he was…

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Young Man Injured Motor Cycle and Horse Collide

Daily Examiner · Saturday 5 March 1932 · page 4

Lance William Morrow, a young man residing at South Grafton, when riding a motor cycle yesterday afternoon, ran into a horse near the bridge in Wharf…

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Cricketer Injured

Daily Examiner · Monday 7 March 1932 · page 2

While playing in a cricket match on Saturday, Mr. Bruce McKittrick, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. McKittrick, of Victoria street, Grafton, received an incised wound…

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Man Injured Hit by Fabling Brick. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 7 March 1932 · page 3

William Milke, 45, of George street, city, had a miraculous escape from death yesterday, when a piece of brick, weighing 21b., fell 100 foot, and struck him…

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