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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1896

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Accidents

Goulburn Herald · Monday 20 April 1896 · page 2

TO-DAY a toy named Patrick O'Rourke, son of Mr. P. O'Rourke, contractor, had a dispute with another boy named Thomas, son of one of the cabmen, which led to blows. During…

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No title the Finding of Arkle. Shot and Attempted Drowning

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 21 April 1896 · page 2

The murderer, whose name was Andrew Arkle, appears to have attempted to end his life directly after he killed his lover. Realising the terrible nature of his crime and the penalty…

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Sad Fate of Two Sisters—Drowned While at Play

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 April 1896 · page 4

Two children named Dorothy and Amy O'Brien were drowned in a lagoon at Bondi on Saturday evening. The children were nine and eight years of age respectively, and resided with their parents…

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Dreadful Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 April 1896 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Monday.—A terrible railway accident occurred on Sunday night about 11 o'clock at the Grand Junction crossing of the main north line and the Dry Creek line. The 10.40 train from Dry…

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Complimentary Meeting to Parsons.—Accident to Martin

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 April 1896 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Sunday.—A complimentary bicycle race meeting was tendered to J. W. Parsons on the East Melbourne ground yesterday afternoon. The weather was delightful, and the sports attracted…

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Accident

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 22 April 1896 · page 3

THIS afternoon while some boys were playing football at the South Goulburn Superier Public School, a son of W. J. Donmend was thrown down with the result that his arm was…

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Fatal Accident

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 22 April 1896 · page 3

J. C. Longronn, assistant-surveyor to the Illuwarra Harbour and Lend Co., was killed yesterday at Wollongong by being thrown from his horse…

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Fatal Accident

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 22 April 1896 · page 3

ON Monday Mr. Samuel Speer of Covan Creek, aged thirty, youngest son of Mrs. Speer of Bangalore, was thrown from his horse and serioausly injured. He had come to…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 April 1896 · page 2

A LITTLE boy named Launcelot Denmead, son of Mr. Denmead, of Bourke-street, met with a serious accidnet on Wednesday. While playing football at the school during the dinner hour he…

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Serious Burning Accident at Crookwell

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 April 1896 · page 4

CROOKWELL, Tuesday.—A child, aged three, the daughter of William Stephenson, a hairdresser, of this town, was playing in the back yard of their parents' residence, when her clothes by some means…

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The Late Fatal Accident

Goulburn Herald · Friday 24 April 1896 · page 2

MR. WM. BROWN of Bangalore has informed at that the late Mr. Samuel Speer was found about twelve yarde from his father's grave, and not on it as montioned in the report of…

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Severe Accident

Goulburn Herald · Friday 24 April 1896 · page 5

BEtween four and half-past this afternoon at the loco. filling shed as a large yankee engine undergoing repairs was being raised by hydraulic power it toppled over and fell…

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Accident

Goulburn Herald · Friday 24 April 1896 · page 2

ON Wednesday afternoon while some boys were playing football at the South Goulburn Superior Public School, Launcelot Denmead. non of Mr. Donmead, Boutke-strect, storekeeper,…

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Dreadful Railway Accident

The Yass Courier · Friday 24 April 1896 · page 2

Adelaide, Monday. -- A terrible railway accident occurred on Sunday night about 11 o'clock at the Grand Junction crossing of the main north line and the Dry Crock line. The 10,40 train…

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Fatal Accident

The Yass Courier · Friday 24 April 1896 · page 2

J. C. Longrenn, assistant-surveyor to the Illawarra Harbour and Laud Co., was killed on Wednesday at Wollongong by being thrown from his horse…

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Fatal Accident to a Child

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 25 April 1896 · page 4

HARDEN, Thursday.—To-day a little boy, four years old, son of Mr. J. Bond, was knocked down by a butcher's cart, one of the wheels passing over his head. The child never regained consciousness…

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Accident to a Railway Fitter

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 25 April 1896 · page 2

AN accident of an extraordinary nature happened in the loco. fitting shed, Goulburn railway yards, on Friday afternoon. It is nothing short of miraoulous that the employes concerned escaped with their…

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Burning Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 25 April 1896 · page 2

A LITTLE daughter of Mr. W. Mills, butcher, who now lives in Clifford-street, met with a rather serious burning accident on Friday. She was playing in the kitchen alone at the time and it is…

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Accidents

Goulburn Herald · Monday 27 April 1896 · page 2

ON Friday a little girl aged three, daughter of Mr. W. Mills, butcher, now residing in Clifford-street, was seriously burnt owing to her clothes catching fire, it is supposed…

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Accident With a Dynamite Cartridge

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 April 1896 · page 3

MRS. Alice Boxsell, residing at East Carlingford, met with a serious accident on Sunday afternoon. One of her children had found a dynamite cartridge, and took it to her. Being ignorant of tile nature of…

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