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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1928

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Taxi Driver for Trial Death Follows Collision. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 28 February 1928 · page 2

Ronald Cousins, aged 22, a taxi-driver, was remanded at the Central Court tor day, charged with having feloniously Slain Arthur Selwyn Bryant…

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Babies Burnt. Shocking Accident. Doll in Flames

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 28 February 1928 · page 3

Two babies, one aged 3 years and one 4 years, were fatally burnt at Glebe while playing with matches. A celluloid doll caught alight, and the…

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Runaway Tram. Accident at Double Bay

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 February 1928 · page 2

A tramcar ran off the line at Double Bay on Monday. It jumped the rails at a curve, and continued on an almost parallel course for about 20…

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Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 28 February 1928 · page 1

Mr. F. Eidler, of Allynbrook, was supervising the loading of some logs on Tuesday when one of them canted and struck him on the leg,…

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Serious Shooting Accident Bowman Youth's Grit

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 28 February 1928 · page 3

While out shooting in the hills around the Bowman River last week-end John Martin, whose parents live at the Bowman, met with a very…

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Accident at Mill

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 28 February 1928 · page 2

About 3 p.m. on Monday, whilst working at Messrs. J. Croll and Sons, timber mill, Errol Moore had the misfortune to break his leg. He…

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Channel Collision Strong Rebuke by Coroner. London, Feb. 28

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 29 February 1928 · page 5

Giving evidence at the Alcantars inquest, the captain of the Tovarisch declared that the Alcantara struck his ship on the port side. Asked how…

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Drowned at Ballina Caught in Undertow

Singleton Argus · Thursday 1 March 1928 · page 4

Mr Ernest Talbot Willows, manager of the Lismore branch of Norco, Ltd., was drowned in the surf at South Beach, Ballina, on Sunday afternoon…

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Nothing Done to Save Lives Tovarisch Collision London, Tuesday Night

Singleton Argus · Thursday 1 March 1928 · page 2

At the inquest into the collision between the Alcantara and Tovarisch, in which 20 members of the Alcantara were drowned, the coroner returned a…

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Migrant Drowned. Fatality Near Warren. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 2 March 1928 · page 5

Ernest Butler, 19, a migrant station hand, employed at Gillendoon Station, near Warren, was drowned in Pemunnel Crcek while mustering…

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Newlyweds in Collision. But Went on Honeymoon

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Friday 2 March 1928 · page 5

In a collision between two cars in Vincent Street last Saturday night, were a newly married couple en-route in the railway station to depart on…

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Accident at Weston

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 2 March 1928 · page 4

Mr. J. Wilks, Jun., was riding a horsoe at the Homestead, Weston, when it stumbled and fell on him, causing a fracture of the loft thigh…

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Accident At Taree Man Shot at Shooting Gallery

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 2 March 1928 · page 2

Sidney Faulkner, a young man employed in connection with the amusement carnival now in session, in Manning street, Taree, met with…

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Two Injured in Collision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 March 1928 · page 4

A collision occurred in Newcastle-street, East Maitland, early this morning between a motor car travelling in an easterly direction and a…

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Boy Drowned. a Queensland Fatality

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 March 1928 · page 9

Ronald Finley employed as a boy stockman on Yaamba station, was drowned in Smith's Creek (Q), it is believed his horse stumbled…

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Railway Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 March 1928 · page 4

Last evening the West Maitland police received a telegram from the Brisbane police, in reply to their enquires seeking information as to…

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Woman Injured. Arrest Follows Motor Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 March 1928 · page 8

Following an accident at Darling-hurst, last night in which a woman was seriously injured, the driver of a motor, who, it is alleged, did not…

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Drowning Fatalities. Boy Could Not Swim

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 March 1928 · page 16

Noel Bryant, 13, a son of Mr. F. Bryant, was drowned in a creek on Sunday at Wattamondara, near Cowra…

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Fatal Fall. Harbour Bridge Fatality

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 March 1928 · page 9

Another fatality occurred on the Sydney Harbour Bridge construction on the 24th ultimo, when William Woods, a labourer, lost his footing…

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Flood Victim. First Fatality in Western District

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 March 1928 · page 16

What is believed to be the first fatality in the western districts bue to the floods was reported by the Warren police on Saturday, when…

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