Man and Two Girls Drowned
MELBOURNE —A man and two young girls were drowned in the River Murray near Rutherglen yesterday…
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Accidents, 1948
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Rifleman Is Injured on Rifle Range
ADELAIDE. — Ammunition issued by the Army to South Australian rifle clubs was generally satisfactory, but there was an…
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Sydney, Feb. 10.—When a motor lorry overturned on Princes Highway near Fairy Meadow today and pinned two men in a ditch containing water, one man…
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QUORN. — David Tyrrell (17), of Quorn was admitted to Quorn Hospital on Friday afternoon with a bullet wound in his left shoulder,…
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J. Gilbert sustained a punctured wound of the right hand at the Zinc Corporation yesterday. After treatment at a surgery he was taken back to the mine…
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Word was received by his father of an accident to Mr. Ivan Elston, 486 Crystal Street, at Swan Hill yesterday. Details received state that Mr. Elston…
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Edward Keenan of 310 Bromide Street suffered lacerations to the tons of his right foot while working at the South Mine yesterday and went to the Hospital…
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Arising out of an accident near the Palace HoteL on June 16, 1947, in which a young man was killed when his motor cycle collided with…
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A 55-year-old man was drowned in the River Darling at Menindee this morning. Police report indicates that the man was only in the…
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Charges were preferred by the police against one of the drivers subsequent to a collision between two buses in Argent Street…
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T. Edwards, 147 Pell Lane, a Zinc Corporation employee, received treatment at the Hospital for injuries to the right eyelid. He was…
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MELBOURNE.—Norman Thompson (18 months), of Merton Street, Albert Park, was hit by a car when he ran from his mother on to the…
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Melbourne, February 13.—John McCarthy, former jockey and later head man at Sol Green's Bacchus Marsh stud, was fatally injured when knocked down…
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A man who is believed to have walked straight into the river Darling yesterday morning was drowned, though the body was quickly recovered and…
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Sydney, Feb. 13.—Patrick Sues (25), laborer, collected £234 from three companies by falsely pretending that he had injured his wrist. He made a mistake…
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In the District Court yesterday, Mr. N. C. Hawes Acting SM, read reserved judgment by his Honor, Judge Berne in the case in which Thelma May…
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Thomas Edwards, a miner at the Zinc Corporation, suffered an injury to his right eyelid yesterday, but was sent home to 147 Pell Lane utter being treated at…
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The adjourned inquest into the circumstances surrounding the death of David Ray Hebbard (63), a platman, and Charles Sayers (38)…
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On Saturday night a woman passenger of one motor vehicle was injured when a collision occurred at the comer of Woltram and Chloride Streets…
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