Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Remarkable Sydney Suicide. SYDNEY
A commercial traveller named George Frederick Spencer Elliott, who resided with his mother in Llewellyn-street, Balmain, left his home…
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Accidents, 1903
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Accidents to Women. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne, Wednesday Afternoon
Mrs. Am[?]a Griffiths heard some children making a noise in a yard at West Melbourne to-day. She ran to a window and looked out, but…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →More Drowning Cases. MELBOURNE
George Joseph Sheldon, butcher, 23 years of age, was drowned in the Goulburn at Kyabram on Wednesday whilst bathing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Peculiar Death on Board Ship. HOBART
William Hardwick, boatswain of the steamer Corintha, while unshipping a derrick yesterday took a pia out of the boom. The pin slipped out too quickly,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Suicide of a Mine Manger, HOBART
James Bean, well known as manager of the Jukes Proprietary mine, Queenstown, suicided on Saturday by cutting his throat…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] South Australian Mishaps. ADELAIDE
A sailor named Williams [?] between the wharf and his ship at Port Pirie yesterday and broke several rits…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] a Lad Shot Dead. MELBOURNE
A lad named John Mayers, 8 years of age, was shot dead at Springhurst yesterday. He was out with a shooting party and got in the line of fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] More Ptomaine Poisoning. Two Children Dead. BRISBANE
The members of a family named Francis, living at East Brisbane, took ill on Sunday, after eating some corned meat. Subsequently, two childr[?]n,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Fall Down a Well. SYDNEY
A telegram from Lawson states that John Poulton, 50, a carpenter and contractor at Wentworth Falls, in company with another man, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Thrown from a Vehicle. SYDNEY
A Tamworth meesage states that Mrs. John Carey and James Guy, of Moonbi, were thrown from a vehicle on Tuesday night. The former died…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Brothers Drowned. BRISBANE
Two brothers O'L[?]ary, 9 and 6 years respectively, were fishing in the river at Durnooh Torrace when the younger got out of his depth. The elder boy…
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Mabel Bulmer, 13 years of age, accidentally [?] from the wharf at Franklin and was drowned. Her body has been recovered…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Drowned in the Torrens. ADELAIDE
The body of Charles White, aged 80, was found in Torrens Lake on Saturday. An an inquest held in the afternoon it was stated that deceased…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Attacked by a Shark. Young Man Loses his Life. SYDNEY
A young man named Stanley James, 20 years of age, residing with his stepfather, J Wearne, at Chatswood, North Sydney, met with a terrible death on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Drowned at Wilcannia. WILCANNIA
Joseph Lawson, 12 years of age, with a number of companions, was bathing in the river yesterday afternoon, whon he got out of his depth in…
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A CAS[?], the first of its kind, came before the West Maitland police court, when James Ralston was charged with a breach of the regulations under the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Fall Through a Window. SYDNEY
Hector Mackenzie, the eldest brother of Donald Mackenzie, Mayor of Young, who was lodging in the Australian Hotel, Young, died yesterday as the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Caught in a Chaffcutter. ADELAIDE
Harry Green was feeding a chaffcutter in the city yesterday afternoon when his left hand was caught in the knives and was almost severed…
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About 6 o'clock last veiling an acident occarred at tha Proprietary mine by which two men were injured so srveruly as to ronder their removal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] a Revolverr Mishap. SYDNEY, Turday
Charlea Whitford, a returned SOuth African solder, was explainiag to some friends yesterday the n[?]anism of a magnzine rovolver he had brought…
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