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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Accidents

Accidents, 1910

10 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers

Motor Smash The Car Somersaults. Two Ladies Injured

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 1 January 1910 · page 1

A sensational motor-car accident occurred at Rouse Hill on the 17th inst. Mr William Moore, of Rydalmere, was driving his new Beeston-Humber car along the…

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Fatal Accident

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 8 January 1910 · page 12

Mr. William Brooks, of Catherine-street, Windsor, sustained frightful injuries at the gasworks on Tuesday morning, and succumbed about three hours after admission…

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Serious Accident

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 22 January 1910 · page 4

A very serious accident befel Mr. Digby A. Cook, assistant in Mr. S. A. Mawson's store, Pitt Town, on Wednesday. It seams that Mr. Cook was driving to Mulgrave siation with a load of empty cases…

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Shooting Fatality. Kenthurst Man Shot

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 2 April 1910 · page 10

Early on Good Friday morning Charges Stevens and his brother Jas. and two other men, all well-known orchardists, in the Kenthurst district,…

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Drowned at the Labor Farm

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 30 April 1910 · page 7

A sad fatality occurred at Pitt Town Casual Labor Farm on Saturday. Dugald M'Farlane Chalmers (22), a Scotchman, who had only been aft the…

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Drowned in [?] McDonald River

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 17 September 1910 · page 4

A middle-age, [?]unknown at pres[?] Employed as puntm[?] was drowned late [?] [?], whose name is and who was em[?] Central McDonald, [?]Saturday night or…

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Serious Accident

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 8 October 1910 · page 4

On Tuesday Mr. Thomas Hellyer met with a very serious accident at Richmond. He has a contract for painting " Toxana," Mr G. E. Woodhill'a residence. It appears that Mr. Hellyer, with…

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A Fatal Accident a Popular Colo Man Killed

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 5 November 1910 · page 1

The inquest concerning the death of Henry Jones, who was killed at Colo on Saturday last, was concluded before the Coroner, Mr J. B. Johnston, J.P., at his…

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Shocking Fatal Accident

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 3 December 1910 · page 4

A terrible accident occured at Berkshire Park, about 1 p.m., on Monday, through which Sydney John. Upton, of Newtown, Windsor, lost his life. It seems that he went…

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Drowning Fatality

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 31 December 1910 · page 4

A sad drowning fatality occurred on Tuesday last at North Richmond, the victim being D'Arcy Dunston, 18 years of age, eldest son of Mr H. Dunston, of Grose…

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