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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1929

2,016 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 40 of 101

Shooting Fatality. Death of Hector Brickman Inquest at Cessnock. Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 2

"I heard a gun go off and locked back and saw Brickman with his hand to his chest. He gave a few gasps and rolled down the incline…

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Bombay Riots Police Restore Order. 8 KILLED; 108 Injured. London, May 7

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 2

Eight people were killed and 10[?] injured in riots at Bombay, but, following the issue of the Curfew order, energetic measures taken by the…

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Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 2

While assisting with the work of unloading gear for a merry-go-round, Ray Horne, son of Mr. A.J. Horne, the well-known carrier, met with an…

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Motor Accident Victim

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 7

Upon enquiry being made at the Maitland Hospital this afternoon, it was learned that Mr. Alfred George Jones, the victim of the motor…

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Painful Accident Dragged Over Barbed Wire Fence

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 5

A ten-year-old boy, Norman C. Nuendorff, who resides with relatives at Warnicigh. Tweed Heads, was riding a horse along the bed of a creek…

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Motor Car Accident

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 13

Mrs. Florence Collins, of Hamilton, was riding in a motor car, which capsized at Hexham, near the railway crossing. She received an incised…

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Struck by Engine Level Crossing Accident. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 13

A car, in which Miss Sidonia Obet, aged 20, and her young sister, Gladys, were driving, near Temora, was struck by an engine at a level…

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Toppled Over. Accident to Motorist. Singleton

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 9

Owing to the from wheels of his Studebaker car, becoming locked, a young man, Ernest Harrington, of Av[?]a-street, Coogee, met with an…

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Hexham Accident Motor Driver for Trial

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 6

The sequel to a motor accident on the Maitland-Newcastle road a Hexham on February 24, when Russell Ball was seriously injured, was the…

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Car Overturned. Man Fatally Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 13 May 1929 · page 5

A man who is believed by the police to be Roger Rogers was fatally injured when his motor car skidded and overturned on the Prince's…

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Canoe Tragedy. Youth Drowned at Auckland

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 14 May 1929 · page 8

Tragedy ended a trip made by two youths in Aucland Harbour in a fourteen-foot canvas canoe, which capsized after being carried by the…

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Shooting Fatality at Congewai Youth Killed by Discharge of Shot Gun Coroner Returns Verdict of Accidental Death

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 14 May 1929 · page 6

At the Cessnock Courthouse on Saturday morning, the District Coroner (Mr. J. T. Richards) held an inquest into the death of Hector…

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Fatally Injured. Motor Cyclist Collides with Tram Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 14 May 1929 · page 5

William Duckfield, aged 50 years, was fatally injured in Paddington last night, when a motor cycle and sidecar which he was riding, collided…

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McCully's Gap. ACCIDENT

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 14 May 1929 · page 6

On Wednesday evening last a very painful accident happened to one of Mr. W. H. Mackay's employees. It appears that he and a fellow-workman…

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Chopped Off Fingers. Accident While Sharpening Pegs Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 14 May 1929 · page 5

While sharpening pegs for the new storehouse at the Municipal chambers, Robert Daley, 50, a council employee, chopped off the second and…

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Caught in Fly Wheel Accident on Dairy Farm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 14 May 1929 · page 4

A shocking accident occurred early on Saturday morning at a dairy farm on the Dartbrook, when Mrs. D'Alovion, who was attending to the milking…

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Accidents

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 14 May 1929 · page 2

When his footbrake Jammed, Mr. L. Lord stretched down to raise. it with hiss hand, and in doing so lost control of the our he was driving…

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Two Fingers Severed Council Employee's Painful Accident

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 14 May 1929 · page 5

A painful accident befell Robert Daley, 50, an employee of the Cessnock Municipal Council this morning. Daley was engaged in sharpening…

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Sacrificed Life. to Save Drowning Girl

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 15 May 1929 · page 3

When a schoolmaster risks his [?] in an attempt to rescue a drowning pupil, does he do so of necessity, or by the implied request or authority…

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Severely Injured. Found Outside Flat. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 15 May 1929 · page 5

Eileen Jaeger, 30, was found last night in an unconscious condition outside her flat in King's Cross. When admitted to hospital she was…

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