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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1899

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Accident at Dalton

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 25 April 1899 · page 2

ON Friday morning last, Mrs. Fred. Wheatley, who resides near Dalton, and who spent Thursday night in Dalton, was leaving for her home in a waggonette, just as she was starting the…

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Accident

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 25 April 1899 · page 2

ON Saturday morning last, Master Charles Thane was driving a horse into the stable at "A therfield," and in doing so struck the animal to make it go in faster, which caused…

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Fatal Accident to a Mayor

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 25 April 1899 · page 2

SCONE, Monday.—The Mayor (Mr E Solomons) met with a fatal accident when driving from Bunnan to Merriwa this morning. He and 5Mr. Sylvester Brown were in a buggy, and when near Merriwa a…

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Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 28 April 1899 · page 2

WHAT may have resulted in a serious accident occurred on Wednesday last, while Miss. Parker was driving past the Scotch Church on her way home, her…

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Sad Accident at Dalton

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 April 1899 · page 5

OUR correspondent writes:—As Mrs. Fred. Wheatley was leaving town last Friday the reins became entangled in the harness and she was unable to guide the horse; consequently as the vehicle was…

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Rumoured Fatal Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 April 1899 · page 2

WE understand that a telegram passed through Goulburn this morning to Mr. William Poidevin. of Collector, informing him that hit brother, Mr. Francis Poidevin, had been killed in an accident…

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The Fatality at Taralga. Inquest

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 May 1899 · page 2

AN inquest was held at the court-house on Saturday before Mr W. H. Whiting, J.P., district coroner, and a jury of six, touching the death of Mr. F. Poidevin, who had been found in the morning in…

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Telegrams. Taralga, Saturday, 3.50 p.m. Fatality at Taralga

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 May 1899 · page 4

MR. FRANK POIDEVIN, who had the contract for Woolshed Creek deviation, was found this morning in his tent with his brains blown out…

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Two Salvation Lasses Drowned

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 4 May 1899 · page 2
Also in Goulburn Evening Penny Post

MURWILLUMBAH, Tuesday.—At 6 40 this evening the passenger steamer Uki collided with a boat about half-way between Tumbulgum and Condong. There were in the…

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Fatal Accident at a Mine

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 May 1899 · page 2

BROKEN HILL, Wednesday.—A sad fatality happened at Block Eleven Mine last evening at 8 o'clock to two young miners named Matthew Gardner and Samuel Lawn, who…

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Fatal Gun-accident

Goulburn Herald · Friday 5 May 1899 · page 2

YESTERDAY the coroner Mr. H. O'Brien held a magisterial inquiry at the Royal Hotel, Tarago, touching the death of Alice Emily English aged sixteen native of Oallen,…

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A Shocking Fatality at Oallen. a Girl Accidentally Shot

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 May 1899 · page 4

NEWS reached Goulburn on Thursday morning of a shocking accident which had occurred the previous morning at Osilen, near Tarago, and by which a girl named Alice Emily English had met her death…

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Sad Drowning Fatally. a Late Resident of Young One of the Victims

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 6 May 1899 · page 2

ON Wednesday night, Mr. Walter MoGrath, tinsmith of this town, receive a telegram conveying to himself and his mother the sad intelligence that his sister, Ada, had been drowned. The…

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Fatal Gun-accident

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 8 May 1899 · page 2

ON Thursday the coroner, Mr. H. O’Brien, held a magisterial inquiry at the Royal Hotel, Tarago, touching the death of Alice Emily English, aged 16, native of…

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Drowning Fatality at Parramatta

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 May 1899 · page 4

A peculiar drowning fatality occurred at Parramatta on Friday evening. A well-known resident of Parramatta, Mr. George Harrison, carrier, who has vans running from Sydney to Parramatta, went…

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Accident to a Ropewalker

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 9 May 1899 · page 4

LONDON, May 5. -- A rope-walker named Hardy has been for some time giving exhibitions at the Alexandra Palace, London, one of his feats being…

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Accident

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 9 May 1899 · page 2
Also in Goulburn Evening Penny Post

ON Sunday morning, a lad named John McMullen was galloping after a horse at his father's residence. The horse he was riding suddenly stopped, throwing McMullen with his…

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Shooting Fatality at Manly

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 May 1899 · page 2

Constable E. Clibborn, of Manly, obtained leave from his ordinary night duty on Wednesday evening, and, intending to go shooting girl birds on Wednesday afternoon, borrowed a double-barrelled…

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