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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1928

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Motor Accidents. Two Killed in Victoria. Melbourne

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 June 1928 · page 14

Motor accidents in Victoria during the week-ond were responsible for two deaths, while 18 persons injured, some seriously…

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Killed by Car. Accident During Mob Fight. Motorist Menaced

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 June 1928 · page 10

Frederick Wade, 57, a wharf-labourer, of 185 Kent-street, Sydney, was fatally injured last night, when he was accidentally knocked down by…

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Motor Accidents Three Victorian Fatalities. Cyclist Killed

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 June 1928 · page 13

Wm. Critchfield, aged 62 years, of Inverness-street, Malvern, Vic, was fatally injured when his motor cycle collided with a motor car at…

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Constable Shot Accidentally Wounded by Comrade

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 June 1928 · page 13

While he was drawing his automatic pistol to fire over the head of a man who was escaping from arrest on Saturday, Senior Constable…

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Electrocuted. Garden Island Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 2 July 1928 · page 6

John Henry Best, 32 years of age, of High-street, North Sydney, was electrocuted at Garden Island, on Sunday afternoon. Best, who is an…

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Killed by Car Fatality at Redfern

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 2 July 1928 · page 2

Fatal injuries were received by Thomas Brown, of Surry Hills, when he was knocked down by a motor car in Cleveland-street, Redforn on…

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Seriously Injured Crushed by Ferry Boat. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 2 July 1928 · page 5

Morris Phillips, 19, a carpenter, while jumping from a ferry boat at McMahon's Point this morning, was crushed between the boat and a…

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Head-On Collision Car and Motor Cycle

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 3 July 1928 · page 2

On Sunday afternoon when Mr. Waller Barkwill was driving his motor car down a hill on the Stroud road leading to Hall's Flat…

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Woman Injured. Knocked Down by Car

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 3 July 1928 · page 3

Mra. Violet Baker, aged 23 years, of Broadmeadow, wan seriously injured when she was knocked down by a motor car at the intersection of…

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Stowaway Injured Carried Into Court at Hull. London, July 2

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 3 July 1928 · page 5

Twe constables carried George Dobson into court at Hull, where he was changed with strong on the liner Port Darwin. It was…

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Two Killed Another Badly Injured Collapse of Scaffolding SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 3 July 1928 · page 5

When a beam supporting scaffolding planks at the Australian Gaslight Company's new holders at Alexandria snapped this…

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Killed by Train. Shocking Accident Near Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 3 July 1928 · page 8

Harry Butcher, aged 30, a railway employee, was killed by a train be -tween Warrington and St. Mary's, on Monday…

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Doctor Fined Failed to Stop After Accident

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 3 July 1928 · page 3

How a medical man hurrying to keep a tennis appointment knocked down a partially deaf cyclist, rendered him unconscious, and went on without getting…

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Three Injured. Accident Near Ironbark Bridge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 4 July 1928 · page 3

A motor car went over the embankmenet on Maitland road on the Newcastle side of the Ironbark Bridge, early on Tuesday morning, and three…

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Body Recovered. Victim of Parramatta Drowning. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 4 July 1928 · page 7

The body of Ada Roberts, aged 12, of Parramatta, who, with her brother, John, aged eight, was drowned in the Parramatta River…

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Injured Actor. Condition Unchanged. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 4 July 1928 · page 7

The condition of Mr. B. N. Lewin, the actor, who was injured in the car smash last night was unchanged this morning…

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Terrific Smash. Motors Meet Head On. Prominent Actors Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 4 July 1928 · page 5

A motor collision which occurred in Alison-road, Randwick, last evening resulted in injuries to several members of the Leon Gordon…

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Drowning Fatality Girl's Body Recovered. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 5 July 1928 · page 2

The body of Alma Roberts, aged 12, of Parramatta, who with her brother John, aged 8, was drowned in the Parramatta River nine days ago, was…

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Head-on Collision Several People Injured

Singleton Argus · Thursday 5 July 1928 · page 2

Mr Leon Gordon, the actor and playwright, Miss May Collins, his leading lady in "Scandal," and Mr B. N. Lewin, a principal in the same play,…

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Motor Accident Three Injured

Singleton Argus · Thursday 5 July 1928 · page 2

A motor car wont over the embankment on Maitlad-road, on the Newcastle side of the Ironbark Bridge, at 25 minutes past 2 on Tuesday morning,…

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