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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1921

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Mining Fatality. Four Men Buried at Stanford. Returned Soldier Killed

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 December 1921 · page 14

Robert Irving, a returned soldier, employed as a miner, was killed by it fall of coal, estimated at from 100 to 200 tons, in Stanford Merthyr Colliery…

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Cutter Capsizes. Five Persons Drowned. Native Woman's Remarkable Swim. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 December 1921 · page 10

Advices received from Fiji state that a cutter capsized during a squall and three Tongan boys and two half-castes were drowned…

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Revolver Accident. Little Girl Shot. Dungog

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 December 1921 · page 15

On Saturday, a little girl named Trappel, eight years of age was accidentally shot in the head with a revolver, which a boy friend was…

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Aeroplane Crash. Accident Near Canterbury. Passenger Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 19 December 1921 · page 3

While pleasure flying at Earlwood Recreation Grounds, near Canterbury, late on Sunday afternoon, an aeroplane because entangled in some electric light…

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Fatal Accident at Pokolbin

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 19 December 1921 · page 4

John Lynch (19), a recent arrival from Ireland, was thrown from a horse at Pokolbin and was apparently uninjured. Shortly afterwards, however, he…

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Unusual Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 20 December 1921 · page 2

A most unusual accident befel Bernie March, the six-year-old daughter of Mrs. E. March, of Anzac-street, West Maitland on Thursday evening…

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Express Collision. Miraculous Escapes. London. Doe. 20

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 22 December 1921 · page 5

The enginemon of the Aberdeen Penzance exress had a miraculous escape near Durham. While an Empty train was being shunted the…

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A Pitiful Tragedy Mother and Baby Drowned in Bath

Singleton Argus · Thursday 22 December 1921 · page 4

A pitiful tragedy was discovered on Monday morning at Okleigh, a suburb of Melbourne. George F. Brennan, a plasterer, who-lived with his wife and…

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Serious Collision. Motor Car and Bicycle

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 23 December 1921 · page 2

On Wednesday morning between 7 a.m. and 7.30, when Edward Barnes was driving a motor car to Wangat, a serious accident occurred…

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Child Strangled. Remarkable Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 23 December 1921 · page 2

A 15-months' old infant, Leonard Richard Ditrich, who had been placed in a wired-in enclosure with another child of the same ago to play, at the…

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Drowning Fatality. Half Drunken Picnickers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 24 December 1921 · page 6

During the inquiry into the death of Ernest Ainsworth Vincent Brennan, aged 20, who was drowned in a boat accident at Port Hacking…

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Railway Collision. London, December 23

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 24 December 1921 · page 5

Reuter's Rome correspondent reports that the Playe railway collision occurred through the engine of the Orient express from Paris striking the…

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Motor Fatality. Driver Charged with Manslaughter

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 24 December 1921 · page 9

A motor car driven by Leslie Fyfe. 26, of Corunna-road, Stanmore, with George Redford, of Parramatta-road, Petersham, as a passenger, was…

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Baby's Sad Death a Bat Poison Fatality

Singleton Argus · Saturday 24 December 1921 · page 5

Death by poison accidentally self-administered was the finding of the City Coroner, after inquiry into the death of the 12 months old baby boy of Mr and…

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Express Collision. Miraculous Escapes. London. Dec. 20

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 24 December 1921 · page 7

The enginemen of the Aberdeen-Penzance exress had a miraculous escape near Durham. While an empty train was being shunted, the…

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Woman Injured. Shooting at the Glebe

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 24 December 1921 · page 9

At her home on Thursday evening Catherine Ryan (27) of Glebe Road, Globe, a barmaid, was shot in the head. She is now in Royal Prince…

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Domestic Tragedy. Husband Killed, Wife Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 24 December 1921 · page 14

A five-roomed cottage in Queen-street, Preston (Vic), was the scene, of a tragedy on Saturday afternoon. The victims were:—John Knipp (57)…

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Our Telegrams. Believed to Be Drowned. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 24 December 1921 · page 5

James Walker, who lived in Wilton-street, Mascot, is thought to have been drowned at Botany Bay last night. The Botany police are…

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Pitiful Tragedy. Mother and Baby Drowned in a Bath

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 24 December 1921 · page 14

A pitiful tragedy was discovered on Monday at Oakleigh, a suburb of Melbourne. George F. Brennan, a plasterer, who…

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Aeroplane Crash. Accident Near Canterbury

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 24 December 1921 · page 13

While pleasure flying at Earlwood Recreation Grounds, near Canterbury, late on Sunday afternoon, an aeroplane became entangled in some electric light…

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