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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1922

429 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 6 of 22

Bgy Drowned

Young Witness · Saturday 25 March 1922 · page 2

CONDOBOLIN, Thursday.— George Ryan, 12. was drowned in the Lachjan River yesterday. It is surmised that, he was thrown from a horse…

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Shocking Accident Butcher Severely Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 25 March 1922 · page 2

Shortly after ten o'clock this morning Mr. Frank Weigall, an employee in Messrs. Hunt and Son's butchery establishment opposite the Royal Hotel,…

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Cut in Halves Fate of a Submarine. Twenty Three Drowned London

Young Witness · Saturday 25 March 1922 · page 1

A destroyer collided with Submarine H42 during manoeuvres off Gilbralter. The latter was last with all hands. The Admiralty imports that the destroyer Versatile…

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Woman Found Drowned

Young Witness · Tuesday 28 March 1922 · page 2

Hay, Saturday—Lucy Goymer, a middle-aged woman, employed on Uardry station, went for a walk on Wednesday evening, and us she did…

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Serious Accident

Young Witness · Tuesday 28 March 1922 · page 4

On Saturday morning word was received that Mr R. Virtue, formerly of Young, had met with a serious accident in Sydney. He was employed…

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The Latest Sydney, Thursday. Accident to Premier Fractured Ankle Ordered to Bed for Month

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 March 1922 · page 2

The Premier (Mr. Dooley) was proceeding to Bronte Baths this morning, when he slipped on a tuft of grass on an embankment and fell several feet…

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Shooting Accident

Young Witness · Saturday 1 April 1922 · page 2

Wellington, Thursday.—The boy Lockhart, the victim of the gun accident, is in a serious condition. It appears now that the boy James was…

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Motor Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 April 1922 · page 1

In connection with the death of John Collins, who was killed at Kensington at the result of a collision between a motor car and a tram, Bartholomew…

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Goulburn Cyclist Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 April 1922 · page 2

Whilst riding in a ten-miles road race on the Windellama road last Saturday Jack Selmes, a popular Goulburn cyclist, was severely injured…

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Brother and Sister Drowned ROCKHAMPTON ([?].)

Young Witness · Tuesday 4 April 1922 · page 1

A double drowning tragedy is reported from Rockhampton (Queensland). Vincent Kelly and his sister Ethel Kelly, aged 28 and 27 years…

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The Gordon Fatality Man Charged with Murder

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 April 1922 · page 1

Taliesin Griffiths (31) was charged at the Central Court to-day with having feloniously murdered Mountford Cook at Garden. Accused was remanded for…

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Shocking Accident. Tram and Motor Collide

Young Witness · Tuesday 4 April 1922 · page 4

A Long Bay fisherman, John Collins, aged 35, recived a ashocking injury, which proved to be fatal when a motor car, in which he was riding,…

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Motor Fatality. an Accused Acquitted

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 6 April 1922 · page 2

In the Central Criminal Court on Wednesday Reginald Mann was charged, that he did feloniously slay Laura Crosby in Oxford-street on December 3…

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Fatal Accident. Milton Smith Killed

The Yass Courier · Thursday 6 April 1922 · page 4

A sad and fatal accident occurred on themain road at North Yass last night when Mr Milton Smith: a well-known carrier, was killed. He…

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Shocking Fatality at Bomen

Young Witness · Saturday 8 April 1922 · page 5

WAGGA, Thursday,—Mrs. Burns, wife of the stationmaster at Bomen was mutilated by a train yesterday morning, ab a result of walking in her…

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Driving Fatality at Yass

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 8 April 1922 · page 4

On Wednesday night Milton Smith aged 34, married, was killed in the main street of North Yass. He was bringing a load of wire netting from…

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The Latest Plane Collision. Six People Killed. LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 8 April 1922 · page 2

Reuter's Paris correspondent reports that a British mail aeroplane, travelling from Croydon to Paris, and a French aeroplane flying from Le Bourget to…

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Fatal Shooting Accident

Young Witness · Saturday 8 April 1922 · page 6

George Lockart (16) victim of a shooting accident, at Wellington, last week, died in the Wellington District Hospital on Sunday afternoon. He…

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Accident to Motor Cyclist

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 8 April 1922 · page 2

An accident happened on Friday morning to one of three young men motor cycling from Junee to Sydney. Between Yass and Gunning, on…

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Shocking Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 8 April 1922 · page 4

Mr. Ham Jones met with a very painful accident on Wednesday afternoon at the slaughter yards (says the Yass Tribune). He had occasion to go…

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