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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1926

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Attacked in Bed Young Girl Injured SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 January 1926 · page 2

Molly Reynolds, 15, a resident of Canterbury informed the police that she was awakened about one o'clock this morning by somebody endeavouring to…

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Level Crossing Accident Melbourne

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 January 1926 · page 2

A motor car and rail motor train collided at a level crossing on the point Nepean Road near Erankson this morning…

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Bowser Falls Rider Injured SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 January 1926 · page 6

A. Hawkins, the well known cross country horseman was schooling Bowser over the hurdles at Randwick this morning, when the horse stumbled and…

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Callahan’s Accident

The Yass Courier · Thursday 7 January 1926 · page 3

Mr. Callahan received the insurance agent with 110 special enthusiasm. The fact that one of the Celt’s eyes was concealed by a bandage did not add to the…

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Racehorse Burnt Another Injured Fire in Stables COWRA

The Burrowa News · Friday 8 January 1926 · page 6

A fire broke out at three this morning in stables at the rear of the Australian Hotel, where several racehorses were stabled…

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Shale Pit Fatality. Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 January 1926 · page 8

Thomas McKean, 40, was working in a shale pit[?]at the Central Brick Works, Sydney, this morning when a fall of shale burled him…

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Old Man's Death Inquest on Jerrawa Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 January 1926 · page 8

The inquest touching the death of Archibald Reid Mason, a retired police constable was conducted by the Coroner (Mr. L. W. W. Yeo) at the Yass…

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JOCKEY McNAMARA INJURED Fall at Bega Races

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 January 1926 · page 5

When Gundaroo Gag and Madge Dooley fell in the Trial Handicap at Bega races last week T. F. McNamara (Madge Dooley) had a shoulder blade…

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Drowned in Dam Driver and His Horse Wellington (N.s.w.)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 January 1926 · page 8

John Wiggan 38, yesterday drove a horse and sulky into a dam. The sulky evidently capsized and the horse was drowned…

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Bathing Fatality

The Yass Courier · Monday 11 January 1926 · page 5

Disaster overtook a bathing party in the Murrumbidgee at Balranald on Sunday last, when three persons were drowned. The victims were;…

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Drowned While Crossing Creek. Glen Innes

The Yass Courier · Monday 11 January 1926 · page 4

Len Hatcher, of Yelarbon, was drowned when attempting to cross Rocky Creek, which was running a banker…

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Accident on the line Mr. F. Weatherby Killed

The Yass Courier · Thursday 14 January 1926 · page 5

About 10 p.m. last night, a derailment of a goods train occurred on the up line to Sydney. A message was sent from the signal box to Hannah’s…

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Motor World Avoiding Accidents Drivers' Imaginations

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 16 January 1926 · page 2

Cheapness and ease of possession generally connote carelessness, and there is no contradicting the self-evident fact that modern motoring i[?]…

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Goulburn Officer Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 January 1926 · page 2

In a collision on the Narooma road on Friday last Mr. J. E. Lyons, of the Goulburn Public Works office, was injured…

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Drowned in a Dam Young Boy's Pathetic End

The Burrowa News · Friday 22 January 1926 · page 8

Quite a wave of sorrow spread over the town on Sunday morning last, when the news became known that a young boy named Frederick…

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Mine Explosion One Man Killed Eleven Others Injured NEWCASTLE

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 23 January 1926 · page 8

One man was killed and eleven injured in an explosion at the Redhead mine, near Lake Macquarie to-day. At 3 p.m. the first ambulance from…

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A Peculiar Accident Nail Hits Girl's Eye

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 28 January 1926 · page 6

Christina McIntosh, the little daughter of Angus McIntosh, of Roslyn, was the victim of a peculiar and painful accident at the Church of…

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Scalded by Steam Accident at Roundhouse

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 28 January 1926 · page 4

While engaged in cleaning a locomotive at the South Loco Roundhouse at 2 30 on Wednesday afternoon Mr. Wm. Matthews was severely scalded…

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Railway Fatality Coroner's Strong Comment Departmental Negligence

The Burrowa News · Friday 29 January 1926 · page 5

At the inquest held at the Yass Court House last week into the death of F. Weatherby, who was killed by the south-west mail train on January…

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Motor Cars Collide a Woman Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 30 January 1926 · page 4

A Buick car drive by Mr. Fairley, of R. L. Paull's and a Chevrolet driven by Mr. Churchill, of Kialla, near Crookwell, collided near the traffic…

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