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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1914

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Bicycle Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 February 1914 · page 2

As the Rev. H. F. Hawkins was-cycling from Rosemonte to Goulburn on Sunday afternoon his machine skidded on some loose gravel on the slope near the rifle range, and he was thrown…

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Fatal Collision. the Defence

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 February 1914 · page 3

Melbourne, Wednesday.—The trial was continued to-day in the Court of General Sessions of Frederick Dudley Weedon Oatrey, grazier, of Eumeralla, near Cooma, New South Wales, on…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 February 1914 · page 4

Mr. John Gilbert, the well-known woodcarter, has had the misfortune to meet with an accident. As he was driving his horses downhill the brake failed to hold, and tile horses tried to…

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Collision in the Air. Berlin, Feb. 10

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 February 1914 · page 6

A passenger-carrying biplane collided with a monoplane at Johanaisthal at an altitude of 100ft M. Degner, who was flying the monoplane…

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Accident to Mr. Tuttlebee

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 February 1914 · page 2

Mr. R. H. Tuttlebee, of Auburn-street, met with a Serious accident through falling down-stairs at his residence on saturday afternoon. He had just had a shower bath and was…

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Accident to Cabman

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 February 1914 · page 3

While Mr. Harry Price, cabman, of Gold-smith-street, was waiting at the top of Auburn-street South on Thursday for a message, the horse moved off unexpectedly and Mr. Price,…

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Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 24 February 1914 · page 2
Also in Goulburn Evening Penny Post

A young lad named Allen Thorne; son oi Mr. W. Thorne, of Brooklands, had the misfortunes io break his leg on Friday afternoon. He was returning…

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Two Railway Accidents. at Fish River

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 February 1914 · page 2

Two unusual railway accident occurred at Fish River on Sunday. While No. 88 goods train from Harden was proceeding down the steep incline at Fish River the coupling…

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Accident to Bather

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 February 1914 · page 2

While bathing in the Wollondilly River on Sunday morning last a young follow named Frederick (Dick) Fielding, who lives with his parents in Victoria street, narrowly escaped…

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The Harden Fatality. The Coroners Inquest

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 26 February 1914 · page 4

AN inquiry into the death of Alister M. Sinclair was held on Monday afternoon at the Court House, by Mr. C. J. Dillon, Deputy…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 February 1914 · page 2

On Monday morning last Olive Bullman, about I7 years of age, and employed as "a skin hand at the Goulburn Furriery, met with a slight but painful accident through having the tips of…

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Shocking Fatality. Hardeu Man's Sudden Death. Took the Wrong Bottle

The Burrowa News · Friday 27 February 1914 · page 4

On Sunday morning the news of a very sad fatnlity shocked the people of Murrumburrah and Harden, and enquiry revealed the fact that Mr. A…

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Burning Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 February 1914 · page 2

A sad burning fatality occurred at Mayfield, Newcastle, on February II, resulting in the death of Ewan Ernest Bliss, the four-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Bliss of Clifford-street,…

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Schoolboy Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 March 1914 · page 2

On Monday afternoon a little boy named Godfrey, a pupil at the Bourke-street Public School, sustained a green-stick fracture of the right collarbone through falling on the…

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A Trooper Injured. in Auburn-street

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 March 1914 · page 4

At about 11 o'clock on Saturday night .Corporal Noah, attached to the 7th Light Horse (Sydney squadron), was injured rather severely in Auburn-street opposite the post-office. He…

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A Sensational Collision in Auburn-street

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 March 1914 · page 2

What is described by eye-witnesses as a sensational collision occurred in Auburn-street, opposite the Royal Hotel, at about five o'clock on Wednesday afternoon. A young woman…

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Wombat Fatality. Mr. William Winbank Burnt to Death

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 5 March 1914 · page 4

Wombat and the whole of the district got quite a shock on Tuesday morning when it became known that the residence of Mr. William…

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Accident Near Tarago

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 March 1914 · page 1

It has been ascertained that the accident that befel Mr. George Keir, while driving from Willeroo to Tarago, which was reported in the Queanbeyan papers, was not so serious as at…

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Accident to Cyclist

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 7 March 1914 · page 2

On Friday morning a boy named William Foley, residing with his parents in a street of Union-street, fell off his bicycle while riding along Union-street, and sustained…

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