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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1913

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Another Drowning Fatality at Burrinjuck

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 February 1913 · page 2

Our Burrinjuck correspondent writes:—"Another drowning fatality took place here on Sunday evening, when a young man named George Ford, aged 22 years, lost his life. It…

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Fatality at Crookwell. Young Man Shoots Himself

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 February 1913 · page 4

At Crookwell on Friday night at 7.30 a young man named Cephas White, twenty-three years of age, was found lying in his room with a bullet wound in his…

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Sad Fatality at Taralga Child Eats Plum Poisoned for Rabbits

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 February 1913 · page 2

A very sad and distressing poisoning fatality occurred at Taralga on Friday evening, a little girl; aged three years and seven months, named Dora Lloyd Rooke,…

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Fatality Near Marulan Man Shot Dead. at the Navvies' Camp

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 February 1913 · page 4

Our Marulan correspondent writes:—At about 10 p.m. on Saturday a wire was received here that a man had been shot at McClcnnau's camp, duplication works, Lockyersleigh, four miles…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 8 February 1913 · page 2

On Friday morning a dray belonging to Mr. T. Williams was jammed by a line of shunted trucks in the railway yards. The axle of Or dray was snappel, and a part of the goodshed…

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Sad Fatality. Death of Mr. A. E. Beegling

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 February 1913 · page 4

Mews was received in Goulburn late on Saturday night that Mir. Albert Edward (Dirk) Beegling, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. William Beegling, had met with an accident,…

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Jockey Injured

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 12 February 1913 · page 2

W. Black, a jockey well known in the Young district, was seriously injured by Marania falling with him in the Park Stakes at Canterbury Park…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 13 February 1913 · page 4

Mr. and Mrs. Nixon Fife recently met with an accident when driving along the Bungonia Road. At the intersection of the Boxer's Creek Road they met the Council's steam metal crusher, and…

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Accident to Cyclist

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 February 1913 · page 2

J. A. Gunn, of Brighton, Victoria, the holder of the motor cycle record between Sydney and Melbourne, sustained a serious accident near Marulan on Friday morning while engaged in…

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Motor Accident in Deccan-street

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 February 1913 · page 2

As Alderman Ashley was driving his sister-in-law, Miss Walling, to the railway station this (Saturday) morning an accident occurred in Deccan-street. The steering gear got out of…

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Accidents

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 February 1913 · page 2

A boy riding a bicycle in Clinton-street on Monday night crashed into a sulky, and was badly knocked about. The bicycle was smashed. It is stated that the boy had no light…

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Constable Buchan Injured

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 19 February 1913 · page 2

Constable Buchan, of Binalong, formerly of Young, received a severe handling at the hands of a navvy at Galong recently, and from all…

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Shot With a Pea-rifle. Sad Accident at Marengo Flats

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 19 February 1913 · page 2

A sad accident, resulting in the death of a rabbiter named Robert Henry Crockett, occurred at Marengo Flats on Saturday evening. Mr. R…

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Fatal Accidents at Marengo

The Burrowa News · Friday 21 February 1913 · page 2

Robert Crockett, about 28 years of age, met with a fatal gun accident on Saturday evening last, about 5 miles from…

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Accident and Fire at the Forest

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 February 1913 · page 3

On last Monday night a rather serious fire occurred at Mr. McShane's Forest Hill lime works, about midnight. The fireman on watch at the kilns left the work for a few minutes…

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Fatal Accident at Burrinjuck

The Yass Courier · Monday 24 February 1913 · page 2

A fatal accident occurred at the works on Friday. William Thomas was assisting at one of the compressed air rock-drillers when a boulder…

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Fatal Drowning Accident at Baw Baw

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 25 February 1913 · page 4

Frederick Merton, a boy of 12 years, was the victim of a fatal drowning accident on Sunday. It appears he went for a bathe with some other boys at Baw Baw. Young Merton went in first,…

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The Baw Baw Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 25 February 1913 · page 2

The Coroner (Mr. O'Brien) held an inquiry on Monday into the death of George Frederick Merton. The inquiry was held at Baw Baw. Following is taken from the evidence given:—…

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Fatal Accident at Burrinjuck

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 25 February 1913 · page 4

A Burrinjuck correspondent writes:—A shocking accident happened here on Friday, when a man named William Thomas was killed instantly. Thomas with another was working a…

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Fatality on Goulburn Racecourse. Inquest

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 February 1913 · page 2

Ernest William Hearne, a jockey, who was injured on Wednesday while taking War G over the hurdles, on the Goulburn racecourse, died at the hospital this morning…

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