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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1920

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Trouble Over Card Table. Man Seriously Injured

Young Witness · Tuesday 30 March 1920 · page 1

WAGGA, Monday.—Yesterday an olderly man named James Castles, was admitted to the Wagga Hospital with a wound in his head. He was…

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Motor Accident at Katoomba. Six Men Injured

Young Witness · Thursday 1 April 1920 · page 5

SYDNEY.—Seven motor drivers who had been attending a farewell function to one of their friends at Caves House, Jenolan Caves, on…

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Jockey Injured Skull Fractured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 April 1920 · page 1

While schooling a horse over hurdles at the showground this morning Roy McCutchie, a Jockey, fell from the saddle and fractured his skull…

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Motor Car Fatality. Women Pinned Under Car

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 April 1920 · page 2

A party of Sydney visitors was returning from Mount Wilson yesterday. When nearing Mount Victoria the car skidded and overturned…

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Returned Soldier Injured May Lose Life

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 April 1920 · page 2

Thomas Nicholls, a returned soldier, foil from a moving train at Lidcombe railway station, and was so badly injured that his life is…

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Two Children Drowned

Young Witness · Friday 9 April 1920 · page 6

MELBOURNE.—Two children of Mr. Dol[?]sson employed at Merbein (Mildurn pumps, were drowned on Sunday afternoon close to the…

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£1000 TROT. Mail-o'-War's Record. Peter Riddle Injured

Young Witness · Friday 9 April 1920 · page 2

Tim Australian Trotting Club held its £100 Trot meeting at Victoria Park racecourse yesterday afternoon in time weather. The track was in…

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Crimes of Violence. Woman Killed at Royal Show Second Woman Injured

Young Witness · Friday 9 April 1920 · page 2

SYDNEY.—A woman named Jul[?]a Dais, 40, was shot dead, and another woman, Lucle Nelson, 19, was wounded as a result of a shooting affray…

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Fatalities and Accidents. Shot While Killing Rabbit

Young Witness · Friday 9 April 1920 · page 2

WAGGA.—Still another pea-rifle mishap occurred this week—the third in this district within a few weeks— when a boy was seriously injured…

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Gun Accident. Soldier Regains Voice

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 13 April 1920 · page 4

Mr. Herbert G. Daly of Calloola, Dalgety, met with a severe gun accident recently. He was operating a mowing machine in his lucerne…

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Redbridge Accident. Claims From Injured Persons

Young Witness · Friday 16 April 1920 · page 1

At Tuesday's meeting of the Demondrille Shire Council several claims for compensation were received with reference to the motor car…

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Trod on Woman's Face. Passenger's Painful Experience. Both Rarties Injured

Young Witness · Friday 16 April 1920 · page 1

The great risk, that is run by persons who sleep full length on the floor of railway carriages, was demonstrated yesterday morning (writes…

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An Accident

The Yass Courier · Monday 19 April 1920 · page 3

Miss Violet Schram, who supports Gladys Brockwell in a forthcoming picture, ‘White Lies,’ declares that she came by her dramatic career…

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Cartoonist Drowned. Boating Fatality in Botany Bay

Young Witness · Tuesday 20 April 1920 · page 2

SYDNEY—Owing to a boat over-turning in Botany Bay on Saturday during a Squall, its two cccupants— Claude Marquet, the well known…

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A Grazier Injured

Young Witness · Tuesday 20 April 1920 · page 2

WAGGA.—Whilst mounting his horse, Edward J. Rodgers, a well known grazier, of Shockaroo Station, near Humula, was thrown…

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Racing Accident

Young Witness · Tuesday 20 April 1920 · page 1

At the Temora trots in the M.U., I.O.O.F. Flying Handicap, Domino put his foot through the wheel of Golden Parole's sulky. Domino fell…

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Fatalities and Accidents. Small Boy's Misadventure

Young Witness · Tuesday 20 April 1920 · page 2

Playing with some other lads on Friday afternoon. Roy Fowler, aged H. son of Mr. F. R. Fowler, of Spring Street had the misfortune to break…

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Girl Injured Jumped from Sulky

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 22 April 1920 · page 4

Lila Bower, aged 18, was seriously insured at Coogee last night as the result of jumping from the back of a sulky, the horse attached to which…

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Car Collides with Team. Two Men Injured. Sydney

Young Witness · Tuesday 27 April 1920 · page 2

A motor car which is alleged to have been stolen, and which was being driven by two men, struck a moving tram in Pyrmout yesterday…

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Boys and Detonators A Child Seriously injured. Loses Sight of One Eye

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 29 April 1920 · page 2

News received from Mudgeestates that two children, sous of James McNamara, a soldier settler at Oban, near Coolab, strayed from…

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