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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1908

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Fatal Shooting Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 January 1908 · page 4

An inquiry was held before Mr. N. T. Collins, District Coroner, on Monday at Frankfield House, touching the death of Marcus Watson Johnson, aged 13, which sad occurrence took place on the…

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Fatal Accident at Tallong

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 January 1908 · page 2

Marulan, Friday.—A young man named Middleton, a teacher in Tasmania, who was spending his holidays at Tallong, when out shooting yesterday, caught his pea rifle…

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Accident to Motor Car

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 7 January 1908 · page 2

Albury, Saturday. —H. B. James and C. B. Kellow, motorists, arrived at Albury at 2 a.m. to-day, resuming the journey 20 minutes later. They left…

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R[?]le Accident

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 8 January 1908 · page 2

A RIFLE accident, so serious in its results that there are fears that it will culminate fatally, occurred at Koorawatha on Sunday afternoon. Mr. Campbell Jackson, manager of…

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Bicycle Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 January 1908 · page 4

A man named Wm. Fry a groom in the employ of Mr. Badgery, of Holmwood, was received at the hospital in a semi-conscious condition on Tuesday night. From what can be gathered…

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Accidents

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 January 1908 · page 2

Mr. H. Fryer, of Merrilla, while working a circular saw a small piece of steel broke off end struck him in the eye. Dr. Burkitt attended the patient, the piece being removed with difficulty…

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Accident

The Yass Courier · Friday 10 January 1908 · page 2

Yesterday Mr. John Boulding was driving into town and when crossing the culvert near Sirs. Wall’s, about seven miles from Yass, the horse he was…

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Accidents

The Yass Courier · Friday 10 January 1908 · page 2

Last Tuesday Mr, George Bush, of Jerrawa, was scrub cutting, when the axe cut through a bough quicker than he [?] and struck him on the…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 11 January 1908 · page 4

Mr. J. Cole, jun., Milton, was driving a milk cart on Thursday morning, and was thrown out as it turned a corner, being injured on the face and leg. Dr. Burkitt attended, and had to apply five…

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Bicycle Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 11 January 1908 · page 4

William Fry, who was admitted to the Goulburn Hospital in a semi-conscious condition on Tuesday night, suffering from the effects of a bicycle accident, is now much better…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 January 1908 · page 4

Mr. James Chapman, caretaker of tile showground, while riding near Lilliebridge on Sunday had the misfortune to fall from his horse and sustain a severe shaking. 'The animal shied…

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[Reuter's.] Sydney, Thursday. Fireman Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 January 1908 · page 2

Thos. Orr, 23, a fireman on the steamer Moravian, lying at Miller's wharf, was found drowned alongside the vessel this morning. When last seen alive he was, it…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 January 1908 · page 4

Jack Deacon, a boy eight years of age, a son of Mr E Deacon, of this city, was out rabbiting early on Wednesday morning, when he fell from a fene, breaking his left leg in two places, at the ankle and…

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Overhead Collision. Panic in New York's Busiest Street

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 18 January 1908 · page 3

A railway collision in full view of thousands of bystanders, on 11th November, sent Broadway into hysterics. At the busiest hour of the day, when…

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Fatal Accident

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 18 January 1908 · page 2

ON Thursday morning last the death took place in the hospital of a youth named John Sydney Small, 16 years of age. who was admitted into the institution on the previous night suffering…

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[Reuter's Telegrams.] London, Monday. Tram Collision

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 January 1908 · page 2

A collision between electric trams in Paris injured 37 people. Theft of a Tiara. George Flynn, a footman, has been…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 January 1908 · page 2

Mr. B.J Kew, head shunter at the railway, station, had the misfortune to meet with a nasty accident on Monday . He was engaged putting up a blind in a window at his own home; when the box he was…

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Driving Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 January 1908 · page 4

Araluen, Saturday —While driving down Araluen Mountain this morning Mr. Austin Chapman, Minister for Customs, and Messrs Lawson and Gegg, directors of the Araluen Central mine, had a…

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A Double Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 January 1908 · page 4

Melbourne, Tuesday.—A lamentable fatality occurred at Black Range late last evening. Mrs. Brown, an aged woman, had a child, Charles Ridding, two years of age, boarded out to her…

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Trains in Collision. London, Jan. 21

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 January 1908 · page 4

A train from Milan to Rome, carrying 10 senators, came in collision with a station-any train at Asquabella Bridge yesterday. A third train from Bergama crashed into…

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