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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1919

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Accident at Cricket

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 6 March 1919 · page 4

Mr. Curtis (Johnson and Sendall's office) broke his arm in the cricket match last Saturday between Recreation and the Gaol. His partner at the wickets did not respond to a…

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Motor Fatality. Three People Killed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 8 March 1919 · page 2

Alstonville, Friday.—Early this morning a motor accident happened about a mile and a half from Alstonville, on Wardell Road, in which Irwin Appelby, a returned soldier, clerk…

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Two Men Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 March 1919 · page 2

Alstonville, Monday.—A drowning fatality occurred in the river at Wardell on Sunday, the victims being a young man named Patrick Davidson, and an elderly man, named Thomas…

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Fatal Bicycle Collision. Tarago Resident Killed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 March 1919 · page 2

On Sunday night about ten o'clock a dreadful accident occurred on the Bungendore-Tarago road. Two men, John Robert Griffin and E. Thorpe, were riding bicycles, and both were…

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Fatal Bicycle Collision Tarago Resident Killed

Young Witness · Friday 14 March 1919 · page 3

On Sunday night about 10 o'clock, a dreadful accident occurred on the Bungendore Tarago road. Two men John. Robert Grillln and E. Thorpe,…

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Fatal Driving Accident Boy Thrown From Milk Cart. West Maitland

Young Witness · Friday 14 March 1919 · page 6

Lawson Hutchinson, 7, son of Mr. Thomas Hutchinson, of Neath, was [?]tally injured in a vehicle accident at Neath yesterday. Deceased with…

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The Tarago Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 March 1919 · page 4

On Thursday night the Goulburn Coroner, Mr. W. S. Arnott, held an inquiry at Tarago into the circumstances surrounding the death of John Robert Griffin, who was killed in a…

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Accident at Cook's Cutting

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 March 1919 · page 4

A man named Augustus Reeman, employed at Cook's Cutting, was admitted to the District Hospital on Friday suffering from a compound fracture of the skull, caused by a fall…

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Sydney Harbour Fatality Five Boys Missing

Young Witness · Tuesday 18 March 1919 · page 2

A service cutter in which were 29 boys and Pelly Officer Duhig from H.M.A.S. Tingara capsized late on Sunday afternoon o[?] Dolraylo Point,…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 March 1919 · page 2

A painful accident befel Master Hilary Armstrong, son of Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong, of Nicholson-street, Ifield, at the sports ground on Monday afternoon. The lad fell on a tap…

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Accident at Crookwell Show

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 20 March 1919 · page 2

Miss Marcia McKenny, the well-known equestricnne, met with an accident whilst riding Mr. Chittick's grey horse Euchro at the Crookwell show on Wednesday afternoon. The horse…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 March 1919 · page 2

A little girl named Lily Gordon, nine years of age, daughter of Mr R. Gordon, Chatsbury is a patient in the Goulburn District Hospital suffering from a fractured thigh and a nasty…

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The Young Witness with which is incorporate the Burrangong Arcus Tuesday, March 25th 1919. Current News a Serious Accident

Young Witness · Tuesday 25 March 1919 · page 2

Mrs. W. Bailey, of Wombat road, Young, met with a very painful accident on Sunday afternoon as a result of which she is now an inmate of the…

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General News Returned Soldier's Accident

Young Witness · Tuesday 25 March 1919 · page 3

Sergeant Fred Yeomans, of Arramagong East, who returned from the war on Saturday after four years service, met with a nasty accident, as a…

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Fatal Driving Accident. A Woman Killed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 March 1919 · page 2

Mrs. Elsie Bibb was, with her child, driving in a sulky at Manly, when the horse bolted. and the vehicle collided with a barbed wire fence. Mrs. Bibb was thrown, and striking her…

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Terrible Fatality at Murrumburrah Flour Mill Boy Accidentally Killed

Young Witness · Friday 28 March 1919 · page 2

An awful fatality occurred at the Murrumburrah Hour mills at 2 o'clock yesterday. A boy named Frederick Franklin, aged about 16 years (son…

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Shocking Accident Girl Loses Eye

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 April 1919 · page 2

A girl, Edith McFadzean, aged 14, daughter of Mr. Thomas McFadzean, of Reynolds-street, N. Goulburn, met with a shocking accident on Monday night at 11.30. As she was walking in…

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Accident at Inveralochy

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 April 1919 · page 4

While out riding at Inveralochy on Tuesday afternoon David Ambrose was thrown from his horse. Hos was admitted to the Goulburn Hospital suffering from concussion and slight…

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Shooting Fatality at Coolamon

Young Witness · Friday 4 April 1919 · page 1

A couple of days ago, four young men, among whom was included Mr. John Spain, of Rannock, were shooting in the vicinity of the…

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Darlinghurst Fatality Medical Student's Strange Death

Young Witness · Friday 4 April 1919 · page 6

With a long rubber pipe carried from the gas ring to the bed, William Sim, a medical student, whose parents live in Dunedin, New Zealand, was…

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