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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1909

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Pea Rifle Accident. an Extraordinary Escape

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 1 January 1909 · page 4

Goulburn, Monday.-- As Miss Alice Fortescue, a member of a picnic party at Kenmore yesterday, was bending down to examine a box of sweets, she was…

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Painful Accident

The Yass Courier · Friday 1 January 1909 · page 2

Yesterday a painful accident happened to Mr. G. W. Merriman, of Yass Plains. From what we can gather just as we are going, to press, Mr. Merriman…

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The Latest. Collision in the Harbour Fifteen Sailors Missing. Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 January 1909 · page 2

The steamer Dunmore collided with a naval pinnace containing about 75 men in the harbour this morning. Fifteen sailors are missing, and are believed to have been…

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Accident at Cricket

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 January 1909 · page 4

Mr. E. Banks, one of the visiting Druids, a Newcastle man, had a nasty accident in the match on Saturday. While wicket-keeping he was hit over the eye by a ball which cannoned…

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Fatality in Sydney Harbour. Later

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 6 January 1909 · page 2

A terrible accident occurred in Sydney Harbour this morning, 15 blue jackets losing, their lives as a result of collision. A party of eighty…

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The Injured Officials

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 January 1909 · page 4

Among the officials of the Proprietary who were attacked yesterday afternoon were Mr. Thos. Worsley, chief surveyor, who was injured on the head and body, and is…

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Collision in The Harbour. Fifteen Sailors Missing. Sydney

The Yass Courier · Friday 8 January 1909 · page 2

The steamer Dunmore collided with a naval pi[?]ace containing about 75 men in the harbour this morning. Fifteen sailors are missing, and are…

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Harbour Disaster. Man-of-war Pinnace Run Down. an Early Morning Tragedy. Fifteen Bluejackets Drowned

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 9 January 1909 · page 4

A NAVAL pinnace from H.M.S. Encounter was run down off Garden Island early on Tuesday morning by the s.s. Dunmore, and 15 sailors were drowned…

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Fatal Accident. a Woodhouselee Resident Killed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 January 1909 · page 4

Mr. Michael Lynch, a resident of Woodhouselee, left his home with Mr. Morris Lynch about 6 o'clock on Thursday evening. Mr. Michael Lynch. was thrown out of the vehicle in which proved…

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Broken Hill Trouble. Riot on the Barrier. Confliot with Police. Constables Injured with Stones

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 12 January 1909 · page 2

The damage done to the Proprietary railway line at Broken Hill was effectual. No trains will be able to run for the present. Some of the telephone wires…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 12 January 1909 · page 2

Mr. William Smith, of Norwood, was shooting with some friends on Friday, when one of the party, using a pea-rifle, shot at a rabbit, but missed it. The bullet struck a log, and…

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Fatal Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 12 January 1909 · page 2

Mr. Michael Lynch, a resident of Woodhouselee, left his home with Mr. Maurice Lynch about 6 o'clock on Thursday evening. Mr. Michael…

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B d Results of Tram Accident. The Came of Mrs. Mackie

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 13 January 1909 · page 2

Nothing but good can result in giving to the public some hint as to the various incidents In which Mrs. Kate Mackie, of No. 2 Sta[?]-street…

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Fatality at Marulan. Boy Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 14 January 1909 · page 4

The Coroner held an inquest at Marulan on Wednesday touching the death of a boy named Stephen Martin, who was drowned on Tuesday:…

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A Double Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 14 January 1909 · page 4

West Wyalong, Tuesday.—Two girls, one 12 and the other 15 years old, daughters of Mr. T. Griffiths, the Warden's bailiff, Wyalong, were accidentally drowned while bathing in the…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 14 January 1909 · page 2

On Tuesday morning Miss. Mabel Boddington, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. Boddington, of Auburn-street North, met with a painful accident. In an endeavour to reach an apricot on a tree she…

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Fatal Boiler Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 21 January 1909 · page 2

Coolamon, Wednesday.—E. Dane, engine-driver at Messrs. Dunn and Stewart's saw-mill, died in Narrandera Hospital on Saturday from the effects of a dreadful scalding,…

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"Robbery Under Arms." Boy Accidentally Killed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 21 January 1909 · page 1

At about 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday William James Parker, a boy of 15, living in North Botany, was accidentally shot dead whilst playing with three companions and a gun. Deceased was the son of…

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The Zig Zag Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 21 January 1909 · page 3

At the Parramatta Quarter Sessions on Wednesday James Bourke, William Henry Fowler and John Corr were charged with the manslaughter of James Wilfred Costello, the victim…

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Drowning Fatality

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 22 January 1909 · page 4

A sad drowning futality is to be recorded, the victim being a young man named Selby McDonald aged 24 years, son of Mr. J. R, McDonald, of…

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