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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1909

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 May 1909 · page 2

Mrs. Annie Sainsbury, of Towrang, on Wednesday morning slipped on a piece of wood and fractured her leg above the knee. She was brought her leg above the knee. She was…

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A Remarkable Series of Railway Accidents

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 May 1909 · page 2

We hear from a correspondent of a remarkable series of accidents regarding the Cootamundra mail. On Tuesday evening the engine of the first mail from Cootamundra to Sydney…

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St. Peters Bridge Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 June 1909 · page 2

At the Central Criminal Court on Monday George Champley pleaded not guilty to a charge of feloniously slaying Thomas Ebsworth at St. Peters on May 1. Mr. Arnott appeared for the defence…

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Accident

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 1 June 1909 · page 2

An accident occurred to Mr Harry Tonkin, on Friday. He was driving a bread cart belonging to Mr. Williamson and in jumping on the vehicle he…

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Circus Tent Collapsed. a Boy Killed. Several Injured

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 2 June 1909 · page 6

Five hundred children, reports the "Daily Mail," of the 8th of March, were assembled in a tent to witness a performance by a travelling circus…

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Bicycle Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 June 1909 · page 2

On Tuesday Reginald Simpson was proceeding down Goldsmith-street on his bicycle, when the machine struck the stonework protecting hydrant, casing the steering tube to break…

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Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 June 1909 · page 2

An inquiry was held in Sydney to-day (Thursday) into the cause of the accident to the paper train on Wednesday, but the result was not known at the time of going to press. The…

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Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 June 1909 · page 4

On Wednesday morning the paper train, due to arrive in Goulburn about 8.30, met with a serious mishap about 7.30 a.m, at the 105 mile post, situated between Wingello and Penrose…

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Fatal Burning Accident Near Bungendore

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 June 1909 · page 4

A little boy named Cleeve Rupert Harriott, aged six years, who resided with his parents near Bungendore, was fatally burned last Friday morning. It appears that the boy's mother lit the fire about…

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Remarkable Chapter of Accidents

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 June 1909 · page 4

A remarkable series of casualties and illnesses occurred near Junee, involving the whole of a party connected with a chaff-cutting plant. First a man named Ben Southwell became ill, and was removed…

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Accident at Sports

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 June 1909 · page 2

At the King a College sports on Monday Ian Macintyre, one of the students and a prominent member of the college cricketing eleven, had the misfortune to break his left arm. He was competing…

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Elevated Railways. a New York Accident. Burning Wreckage

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 9 June 1909 · page 5

The precipitancy of a workman in pulling the lever of a switch caused the second car of a three-car train on an elevated railroad to fall forty feet into…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 12 June 1909 · page 2

As Mr. E. W. Ledsam, dentist, was returning to Goulburn on Monday from Taralga on his motor bicycle he met with an accident. While descending a hill near…

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Bicycle Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 June 1909 · page 4

One day last week Essington Stacey, son of Mr. George Stacey, was riding along Auburn-street near "The Briars," when the fork of his bicycle snapped. He fell heavily to the ground, and…

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Motor Car Tragedy. Heiress Killed and Millionaire Injured

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 16 June 1909 · page 6

A terrible motor accident occurred in Long Island on 19th November, in which Mrs Frances Burton Harrison, daughter-in-law of the authoress,…

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Accidental Death

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 16 June 1909 · page 3

ON Friday night last, Mr. Thomas Mahoney, a resident here for some years and whose age was about the allotted one of 70, met with an…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Wednesday. Fatal Accident at Broken Hill

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 June 1909 · page 4

A young unmarried man, J. Smith, working in Junction North Mine, Broken Hill, was caught in belting this morning, and dreadfully injured. He died almost…

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Fatality at Junction Point

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 19 June 1909 · page 4

Our Crookwell correspondent writes:— News came to hand on Wednesday to the effect that Miss Larkin, of Junction Point, was in a serious condition, the cause being poisoning from strychnine…

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Drowned in Tumut River

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 19 June 1909 · page 4

Tumut, Thursday.—William Bridle, only son of Mr. W. H. Bridle, aged 19, was drowned in the Tumut River about two miles below the town recently. The man was…

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Death of Injured Boy

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 19 June 1909 · page 2

The lad, Jack Dean, who climbed by the inside of a chimney tack at Ryde on Thursday and fell a height of about 40 feet, died at the Balmain Hospital early on Friday morning. A…

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