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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1927

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Fatal Motor Accident. Verdict for £200

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 6 April 1927 · page 3

Robert Howard Atherton, [?] as the administrator of the estate of his daughter, Dulcie May Atherton, sought to recover £1000 from Mark Thompson,…

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Man Drowned Pushed Into Water by Crowd

Singleton Argus · Thursday 7 April 1927 · page 2

A man, aged about 60, was. drowned in unusual circumstance's at Miller's Fo[?] on Monday afternoon while awaiting the arrival of the steamer…

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Woman Killed. Five Persons Injured. Motor Car Dashes Into Crowd

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 7 April 1927 · page 4

Out of control, a motor car dashed into a crowd of people who were crossing Flinders-street. Melbourne, opposite the railway station at 6 o'clock…

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Fatally Injured. Woman Attacked by Cow

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 April 1927 · page 6

Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth Pemberton, aged 48 years, of Canterbury. (Vic.), died in the Alfred Hospital, Melborne from injuries she received…

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Wool Dryer Bursts. One Killed: One Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 April 1927 · page 3

With effects similar to the explosion of a heavy shell, a wool-drying machine in a fellmongery at Drury, neat Auckland, burst into pieces on…

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Over the Cliffs. Man Seriously Injured at Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 April 1927 · page 3

Duncan. Ironside (42), a boilermaker, of Zara-street, Newcastle, fell over the cliffs near the beach kiosk on Thursday afternoon…

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Attacked by Bull Farmer Badly Injured. Toowoomba

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 April 1927 · page 5

John Doyncan, 82, was attacked, by a bull on his farm at Fordside. He was knocked down, and his spine badly injured…

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The Only Accident

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 8 April 1927 · page 1

There was only one accident on the big day of the show. A youth sustained a broken arm when competing at one of the side shows…

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Accident at Richmond Main

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 April 1927 · page 4

Robert Noble, 48 years, employed at Richmond Mala Colliery, and a resident of Church Street, Newcastle, was injured in the colliery…

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Speedway Fatality

Singleton Argus · Saturday 9 April 1927 · page 7

Tommy Maher, the brilliant Sydney motor cyclist, died in the Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Brisbane, on Thursday afternoon, from injuries received at the…

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Morpeth President Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 April 1927 · page 4

Roy Wright, aged 38 years, a carpenter, employed by the Tramway Department at Newcastle, and living at Morpeth, sustained an incised wound…

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Unlucky Number. Thirteen Involved in Fatality

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 April 1927 · page 5

The number 13 upheld its tragic significance on the night of March 13 last, when 13 passengers on a motor bus were concerned in an…

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Youths Injured. Nitric Acid Incident

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 April 1927 · page 5

Two youths, Arthur Gaunter and William Jackson, were badly injured owing to a jar of nitric acid bursting at the business premises of the…

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Car Smash. Seven Persons Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 April 1927 · page 7

A car, driven by Henry William Boyd, of Princess-street, Kew, Vic., was travelling along Burwod Road at 2 a.m., when it crashed into an…

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Englishman Drowned. the Body Identified. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 April 1927 · page 8

The body of the man drowned at Dalgety's wharf, Miller's Point, last night, was this morning, definitely identified as that of Henry Warren…

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Fingers' Cut Off. Country Tennis Champion Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 April 1927 · page 4

Reuben Lehane, who, with his brother, Reginald, won the special doubles championship at the country tennis carnival in Sydney, lost the…

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Car Dashes Into Crowd One Killed, Five Injured

Singleton Argus · Saturday 9 April 1927 · page 6

One person was killed and five others badly hurt as the result of the wild dash of a motor car at 6 o'clock on Wednesday evening into the crowd…

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Speedster's Death. Removes Chief Witness. at Motor Fatality Inquiry, Toowoomba

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 April 1927 · page 5

The death of Tommy Maher, the well-known Sydney speedster, who was killed in an accident at the speedway, removes the chief witness…

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Cycle Accident Boy Killed

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 April 1927 · page 5

While riding a bicycle in Woronora-road, Hurstville, last week, afternoon, Raymond Butler, aged 14, living at Derwent-street, Hurstville,…

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Accident

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 April 1927 · page 3

Mr. William Griffiths, of Scott's Flat, was riding his horse at the intersection of High and Market-streets, when the animal fell, and Mr…

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