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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1906

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Accidents

Goulburn Herald · Friday 2 February 1906 · page 2

LAST evening as Denis Camby, aged 20, was driving round Knowlman's corner in Auburn-street, the cab struck the kerb, and Camby was thrown heavily on to the road-way. He…

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A Runaway Train. Serious Accident at Yass

The Burrowa News · Friday 2 February 1906 · page 2

A serious railway accident occurred at Yass Junction, between [?] and 2o'clock on Saturday morning last. A train loaded with wheat and travelling to Sydney…

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Sydney Harbor Disaster. Launch Cut in Two by a Steamer. Husband and Wife Drowned. Sydney

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 3 February 1906 · page 6

A boating catastrophe occurred in Sydney Harbor this afternoon, insulting in the death of two persons, Frederick Thomas Homing and his wife…

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Cab Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 3 February 1906 · page 4

As a young man named Dennis Camby was driving a cab belonging to Mr. Collins along Auburn-street on Thursday night about eight o'clock the horse stumbled in front of Mr…

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Accident to Lady Grey

Goulburn Herald · Monday 5 February 1906 · page 4

Lady Grey, wife of Sir Edward Grey, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affair, was thrown from her trap yesterday, at Falloden, Northumberland, near her home, and was…

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Goulburn Races. Autumn Meeting. a Horse Fatally Injured

Goulburn Herald · Friday 9 February 1906 · page 2

OFFICIALS—President, Dr. Burkitt; Judge, A.G. de Laure; handicapper, Jas. Price ; rice-Presidents A.B. Chisholm. F.D. Badgery. F.F Glbeon, R.C. Cooper ; hon. treasurer. C. M. Shaw ; clerk of…

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Alpine Accident

Goulburn Herald · Friday 9 February 1906 · page 2

Dr. Gehers, with the Alpine climber Mul-house and guides, were caught in a glacial hurricane on the Statlhorn, and blown over a precipice 4000 feet high, where they were…

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The Harbour Fatality

Goulburn Herald · Monday 12 February 1906 · page 5

ACTING under instructions from the Department of Justice, Detectives Ward and Fullerton served a notice upon R. L. C. Ward, taster of the ferry steamer Manly, calling…

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Accident at the Races

Goulburn Herald · Monday 12 February 1906 · page 2

AN unfortunate accident happened on Friday, time first day of the Goulburn races, which resulted in a jockey named Donnelly sustaining a broken collar bone, and a horse…

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Drowning Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 13 February 1906 · page 4

Constable Poett, of Collector, wired to tile Goulburn police yesterday that a boy named Walter Rosewara had been drowned in a dam at Spring Vallley on Sunday. The body has been recovered,…

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The Late Drowning: Fatality

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 14 February 1906 · page 2

THE coroner, Mr. O'Brien, held an inquest at Currawang yesterday, touching the death of Walter Harold Rosewarne, 15 years of age, who was found drowned on Monday last in a…

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Drowning Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 15 February 1906 · page 4

Mr. O'Brien, Goulburn District Coroner, held an inquiry at Currawang on Tuesday into the circumstances surrounding the death of Walter Harold Rosewarn, a boy of 15 years…

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A Training Accident

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 15 February 1906 · page 2

Early yesterday morning a very serious accident happened on the local horse training course. Mr. C. Crocker has in hand amongst others, a horse for Mr…

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Collision in Rotten Row. "On the Snaffle."

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Friday 16 February 1906 · page 4

Miss Beatrice Hendriks, of 7 Vicaragegate, Kensington, her sister Ethel, and her sister, Mrs Pollard, were riding in Rotten Row one day in May…

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Mr Roosevelt's Adventure. a Steamer Collision During His Sleep

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Friday 16 February 1906 · page 3

The New York correspondent of the London "Daily Mall" wrote on 27th November:-- At the close of his visit to New Orleans, Mr Roosevelt and his party…

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Accident to a Jockey

The Yass Courier · Friday 16 February 1906 · page 2

Early on Wednesday. morning an accident happened on the racecourse,, when a lad named Charles Hearne received a nasty fall. Hearne was exercising a…

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Drowning Fatality in Goulburn. a Young Woman's Death

Goulburn Herald · Monday 19 February 1906 · page 2

THE body of a young woman named Emily Gray, domestic, employed by Mr. G. T. Boileau for the past five years, was found in the Wollondilly River tins morning…

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Found Drowned. Evidence at the Inquiry

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 20 February 1906 · page 4

An inquiry was held at the Goulburn Courthouse on Monday afternoon by Mr. O'Brien, district coroner, concerning the death of Emily Gray, whose body was found in the…

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The Late Drowning Fatality

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 21 February 1906 · page 2

THE adjourned inquest on the body of Emily Gray or Emily Harwood, which was found in the Wollondilly river, at the foot of Albert-street, I field, on Monday morning, was…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 22 February 1906 · page 2

An accident attended with serious loss occurred on Lansdowne Bridge last Tuesday afternoon. It appears that A. Cowlin, son of Mr. IV. Cowlin, was driving a horse loaded with wood, when the…

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