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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1931

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Accident

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 9 April 1931 · page 3

Mr. Stan Boreland an employee of the Shire Council, has met with [?] a painful accident. He was assisting with bridge construction…

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Child Shot Dead Crookwell Fatality

The Burrowa News · Friday 10 April 1931 · page 5

Finding a loaded repeater rifle in a car at his home at Crookwell, William Wilson, three-years-old son of Mr. Claude Wilson, was apparently…

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Car Overturns Two Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 13 April 1931 · page 2

When a baby model car capsized on Rookwood Road, Bankstown, early on Saturday night. Its driver, Charles Twemlow, 60, of Heydon Street,…

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Local and General Motor Accident

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 13 April 1931 · page 2

Miss Duffy, who was injured in the motor accident last week, and is an inmate of the District Hospital, is improving in condition slowly…

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Hand Injured While Wire Straining

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 15 April 1931 · page 3

Mr. Geo. Seerey, of Narrawa, was straining a wire cable across Old. Man Gunyah Creek, writes our Crookwell correspondent, when he became caught…

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Coronial Inquiry Billie Wilson's Death Accidental

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 22 April 1931 · page 3

The District Coroner, Mr. J. J. Manion, J.P., at the Court House on Thursday last, conducted an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding…

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Air Collision Two Killed LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 24 April 1931 · page 3

The Air-Ministry announces that Air Vice-Marshal Holt, air officer commanding air defence of Great Britain and…

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Sad Fatality Young Boy Killed Thrown From Horse

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 27 April 1931 · page 2

A sad fatality occurred at Wee Jasper on Saturday when Clifford Barber, 12 years of age, son of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Barber, of…

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Fatal Car Accident Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 April 1931 · page 2

Frank Castelli, the youth who was frightfully injured in a motor car accident at Lewisham late last night, died early this morning…

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Car Fatality

The Burrowa News · Friday 1 May 1931 · page 6

Theodore Quick, an old boy of Junee, and son of the Postmaster at Five Dock, was killed when a Baby Austin car he was driving…

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Man Drowned Four Inches of Water Melbourne

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 1 May 1931 · page 2

William Joseph Cecini, 29, motor driver, of St. Arnaud, was drowned in four inches of water last night. He was crossing tile railway line at the…

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Shot at Train Nobody Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 4 May 1931 · page 3

A bullet, fired from some fire-arm, struck the train in which the leader of the Nationalist party (Mr. T. R. Bavin) was travelling…

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Waghorn Injured Plane Crashes LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 6 May 1931 · page 3

Flying low over Farnborough Common in a 60-mile an hour gale, an aeroplane, piloted by the Schneider Cup pilot. Waghorn, accompanied by…

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No Negligence Little Girl's Death "Unfortunate Accident"

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 6 May 1931 · page 2

A verdict of accidental death was returned by the District Coroner, Mr. M. E. Soane, at the Goulburn Coroner's Court…

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Serious Crash Cycle and Sulky Rider Badly Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 May 1931 · page 3

Colliding with a sulky on the Taralga Road on the Goulburn side of the Kenmore Bridge at 7 30 last night, Hugh Ross, 21, a…

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Man Drowned Four Inches of Water

The Burrowa News · Friday 8 May 1931 · page 8

Melbourne.—William Joseph Cecini, 29, motor driver, of St. Arnaud, was drowned in four inches of prater one night last week He was…

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Nolle Prosequi Action by Crown Paddy's River Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 8 May 1931 · page 2

The Crown has entered a nolio prosequi in the case in which Robert Rennie was charged with the manslaughter of David…

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Footballers Injured at Stockinbingal

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 12 May 1931 · page 3

Norman Dundas, a railway employee, was seriously injured while playing football at Stockinbingal at the week-end…

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Chinaman Injured Hit-Run Motorist? Lying on Bowning Road

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 14 May 1931 · page 2

What looks remarkably like a callous and cold-blooded action on the part of a motorist or Cyclist was perpetrated on Monday…

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Motor Accident

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 14 May 1931 · page 3

A motor accident occurred last night, in Albury street, Murrumburrah, near the Monument. Two strangers, named Boyd and Evans,…

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