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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1922

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Serious Assaults. Three Persons Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 November 1922 · page 16

Three cases of serious assault, occurred in Sydney on Saturday night. The victims, two men and a woman, are now in hospital, one of them in…

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Tomago Fatality. Man Struck by Lightning. Son's Awful Discovery. Raymond Terrace

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 November 1922 · page 9

Mr. Peter Chaaffe, an employee of Messrs. J. and A. Brown's Hexham works, was struck by lighthing during the course of the severe storm…

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Prince of Wales Injured a Hunting Mishap. (Reuter's Cables.) London, Thursday Night

Singleton Argus · Saturday 4 November 1922 · page 6

While riding with the hunt at Ma[?] mesbury the Prince of Wales met with a slight mishap. His horse slipped on the greasy road, and the Prince c came…

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Napoleon's Youth. Little Accidents

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 November 1922 · page 10

It is only natural and fitting that future generations should feel an interest in the early days of great men. Of course, one knows that it is…

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A Boy's Death. Accident at Swimming Baths

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 November 1922 · page 16

An inquest, was opened in Sydney into the death of Graham Gallett. Cairns, aged 12, who died in hospital from a fractured skull, sustained…

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Fund for Jockeys. Accident Compensation. London. October 28

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 November 1922 · page 2

The Jockey Club has organised a fund, which will be in function by 1923, providing benefits for jockeys injured while riding in races and for…

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Shocking Accident to Child

Singleton Argus · Saturday 4 November 1922 · page 8

A terrible experience befell Joan Griffin, the 4-year-old daughter of Mr P. R. Griffin, of Belmore River, Kempsey, on Thursday…

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Cricketer Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 November 1922 · page 2

T. Johnson, a member of the Hunter representative C team, broke the forefinger on his left hand while playing against Newcastle on the…

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Drowning Faitauties Young Man and Child

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 November 1922 · page 6

There was another drowning falatity in Sydney harbour on Sunday afternoon Charles Heath 21, of Regatta Road Five Dock, who was one of the party of…

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Drowning Fatalities

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 7 November 1922 · page 3

There was another drowning fatality in Sydney harbour on Sunday afternoon. Charles Heath, aged, 21, of Regatta-road, Five Dock, who was one…

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Man Drowned. Capsize of a Launch

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 November 1922 · page 6

Further details have been received at Milton concerning the drowning of Thomas Brown, a young married man with a wife and four…

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Unusual Accidents

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 7 November 1922 · page 4

During the dancing of the Irish Jig at Gloucester Caledonian Sports on Saturday last, the shillelah slipped out of one of the competitor's hands,…

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Driving Accident

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 7 November 1922 · page 2

While Mrs Geo. Grainger, of Spring Vale, her daughter, and a little grandchild, were driving into town on Friday afternoon in a sulky, they met…

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LOCAL & General News Accident at Branxton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 November 1922 · page 4

Harry McDermott, 14 years or age, a son of Mr. T. McDermott, of Branxton, had one of his thumbs badly injured at the Co-operative…

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Engine and Lorry. Collision at Level Crossing. Boy Killed and Man Seriously Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 November 1922 · page 4

A boy was killed instantly, and a man terribly injured, through the collision of the motor lorry and an engine on the level crossing at the Bulli…

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Launch Capsizes Man Drowned. Swim Through Shark-infested Waters

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 10 November 1922 · page 3

Further details have been received concerning the drowning on Thursday of Thomas Brown, a young married man with a wife and four children…

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Unusual Accident. Woman's Strange Death

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 10 November 1922 · page 4

Mrs. [?] Bullon (78) met with [?] accident of Uralla, that resulted in her death. She was untying a cow at a boil when…

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Shooting Accident. Husband Wounds His Wife. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 10 November 1922 · page 5

Mrs. Edith Heekford, 28, was accidentally shot by her husband, Bernard Heckford, at her home, Granville, last night…

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Painful Accident

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 10 November 1922 · page 8

A man named Howe, a resident of Ravensworth, was the victim of a painful accident on Sunday night. He was riding a bicycle along the…

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Engine and Lorry. Collision at Level Crossing. Boy Killed and Man Seriously Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 November 1922 · page 5

A boy was killed instantly, and a man terribly injured, through the collision of a motor lorry and an engine on the level crossing at the Bulli…

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