Sensation, Fatality & Crime
Relative to the death at Tocumwall of John Gosport Fraser, in which case. a verdict of murder has been returned against some person or persons…
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Relative to the death at Tocumwall of John Gosport Fraser, in which case. a verdict of murder has been returned against some person or persons…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →An inquest was held before the coroner (Mr. William Walker) and a jury of twelve, on Thursday, the 22nd instant, at the residence of William Farrell, at Plashett, near Jerry's Plains, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MR W. WALKER (coroner for the district) held an inquest at Plashett, Jerry's Plains, on Thursday, touching the death of a youth named John…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A RAILWAY accident occurred on the Northern line on Saturday night, between Carlingford and Eastwood station. About 10.10 p.m. the engine…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →By telegraph yesterday forenoon we were advised by Greville's Company of a railway accident on the line between Newcastle and Sydney. We take the following accounts of the casualty from the Herald…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Saturday night a man while walking along Baxwell-street, Granville kicked against a bundle, and on picking it up he found it to contain a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE coroner for the district (Mr W. Walker) held an inquiry on Friday "at St. Clair, concerning the death of Lily Wilkinson, aged 25. The following…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →AN accident of a serious nature occurred to the northern mail train which passed through Singleton at 6.2 p.m. last Saturday, on route for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE railway smash which occurred at Carlingford last Saturday night, as reported elsewhere in our columns, was supplemented on the same night…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR W. WALKER (Coroner) held an inquest at the Railway Hotel, Singleton, yesterday morning, touching the death of a man named John Coyle, a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A young married man named John Coyle came to an awfully sudden death near Rix Creek on Monday evening by the upsetting of a dray, causing a winch in the dray to fall upon him, the spindle of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Tuesday night a cabdriver found a newly-born female child in Hereford street, Glebe. The baby was well wrapped up and had a feeding bottle…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miss Ramsay, a young lady aged 18, belonging to North Shore, Sydney, and who is a school teacher at Willa Willa, Upper Macleay, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Railway Commissioners have received the report and decision of the board appointed to inquire into the circumstances under which the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MR. W. MANLY Has returned from Sydney in no way impaired after his somewhat sensational experience in connection with the railway accident…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Melbourne telegram states that a shocking railway fatality occurred at Caulfield last Friday morning. As the early train from Dandenong was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Alick Kelly, a lad 13 years of age, was hare-shooting at Wellington on Monday. He forgot that the gun he carried was loaded, and went through…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →We have brief news of a terrible calamity in Japan. The Occidental and Oriental Company's steamer Gaelie, which arrived recently at San…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A terrible accident, which shocked and stunned a crowd of thousands of people, took place at the Public Gardens, Columbus (Ohio). Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The remains of three human bodies have been discovered in a cesspool at Whitcchapel. It is believed that they are those of persons murdered 20…
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