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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1897

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Accidental Deaths

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 April 1897 · page 4

THE Sydney Coroner on Tuesday resumed the inquest touching the death of Colin Murray, aged 60, which occurred on 26th February on board the steamer Bothwell Castle, then lying at the A U.S.N…

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Buggy Accident at Tamworth

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 April 1897 · page 4

Tamworth, Tuesday.—An unfortunate accident occurred to Mrs. Piddington, the wife of Archdeacon Piddington, yesterday. Both were returning home from Moonbi in a buggy drawn by a spirited…

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Accident at Taralga

Goulburn Herald · Friday 2 April 1897 · page 2

A PAINFUL accident happened to a young man named William Munro of Taralga. He was standing outside the Richlands Hotel on Thursday evening, when a horse that was…

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The Late Serious Accident

Goulburn Herald · Friday 2 April 1897 · page 2

WE are pleased to state that the youth Oswald Grabb who lost his left hand on Monday through its being crushed in a corncracker is doing very well. His…

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Peculiar Drowning Cases

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 3 April 1897 · page 4

Melbourne, Thursday.—Three weeks ago the body of an elderly woman named Margaret Conolly was recovered from the salt water river. Her husband, who resides at Kensington-road, stated…

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Three Deaths from Drowning

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 3 April 1897 · page 4

AUCKLAND, Thursday.—The wife of a settler named Hope, at Hutt, near Wellington, her stepdaughter, and a little child were found drowned in the river to-day. Mrs. Hope had driven her husband to…

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Fatal Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 3 April 1897 · page 2

A MAN named William Deer, a produce dealer, residing in Beattie-street, Balmain, was run over by a van in George-street, near the intersection of Liverpool-street. on Friday afternoon. It appears…

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Accident at Taralga

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 3 April 1897 · page 4

A MOST peculiar accident happened at Taralga on Thursday evening. A horse which was tied in front of Tynan's hotel broke the bridle by pulling away, and fell over on its side. Mr. W. Munro, tailor, of…

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Fatality at Bathurst.—Struck Dead by Lightning

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 April 1897 · page 2

BATHURST, Sunday.—A fatality occurred to-day. Two young men named Edward Donnelly and George Marks were walking along Bentinck-street. There was every sign of a storm, when a crash of…

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Accident to a Boy

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 10 April 1897 · page 2

ON Friday evening a boy named Thomas Armstrong, aged 9 years, was picked up insensible near the long bridge at North Goulburn. The boy's father is a warder at the Goulburn gaol and…

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Chapter of Accidents

Goulburn Herald · Monday 12 April 1897 · page 2

ON Friday evening, Thomas Armstrong, aged nine, son of Warder Armstrong of Goulburn jail, took a horse to the Mulwarree ponds for a drink, and was afterwards found…

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Accidents

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 13 April 1897 · page 4

No less than three accidents of a rather serious character occurred on Sunday afternoon last. A little boy named Sidney Myers, aged about eight years, living in George-street, broke his arm…

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Fatal Accident at Parramatta

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 13 April 1897 · page 3

Mr. T. E. MacNevin, the Parramatta District Corouer, beld an inquest at the George-street Asylum, Parramatta, on Monday, touching the death of an inmate named William Dredge, aged…

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Accident

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 14 April 1897 · page 2

AN accident happened at Kippilaw yesterday afternoon to a man named Thomas Hincksman. He was cutting timber, when the axe slipped, inflicting a severe wound across the…

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Accident at Collector

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 15 April 1897 · page 4

MR THOMAS HINCKSMAN, of Collector, met with a very painful and serious accident on Tuesday evening. He was working at some timber, when the axe slipped and inflicted a nasty wound on the…

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Fatality at Bathurst. Struck Dead by Lightning

The Yass Courier · Friday 16 April 1897 · page 4

Bathurst, Sunday.-- A fatality occurred today. Two young men named Edward Donnelly and George Marks were walking along Bentnick-street West, and were approaching…

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Serious Accident

Goulburn Herald · Friday 16 April 1897 · page 5

A VERY painful and severe accident occurred to Miss A. McDonald and Mr. Donald McDonald about eight o'clock last evening They were driving into town from Garfield…

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Girl Drowned at Warren

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 April 1897 · page 4

Warren, Thursday.—A sad case of drowning occurred this morning in the Macquarie River, about three miles above Warren. Agnes Murray, the daughter of Robert Murray, who was staying…

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Serious Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 April 1897 · page 4

A VERY serious accident happened on Thursday afternoon to Miss Annie McDonald and her brother Mr. D. McDonald. Mr. McDonald with two sisters was driving along Clinton-street, and when…

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Bathing Fatality

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 21 April 1897 · page 2

SYDNEY ARTHUR NOSWORTHY, aged eighteen, was drowned in a waterhole at Gordon, at the head of the Lane Cove River, on Saturday morning. Deceased and three other youths,…

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