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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1930

1,301 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 16 of 66

Pell From Car. Commercial Traveller Injured. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 28 February 1930 · page 5

A commercial traveller named Cox was found injured on the roadside near East Maitland this morning. A passing motorist picked the man…

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Amazing Fortitude Injured Man's First Thought for Wife

Singleton Argus · Friday 28 February 1930 · page 4

Amazing fortitude of a man who had his skull broken in four places; both jaws fractured, and an eye severely injured, in a motor car accident…

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Five Killed. Twenty-five Badly Injured. Lakcashire Mine Disaster. London, Feb. 27

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 28 February 1930 · page 5

The roar of an explosion heard from afar sent hundreds of women folk to the pithead of Haydock colliery, Lancashire…

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Painful Accident

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 28 February 1930 · page 2

Mr. L. Thearle, who took over Mr. A. H. Young's butchering business on Monday last, had the misfortune on Tuesday to lose the tops of three of…

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Severely Scalded Accident at Denman Butter Factory. Denman

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 28 February 1930 · page 2

Fergus Murphy, while working on the platform of the Denman Dairy Company, was severely sealded on the face and right eye. The steam…

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Motor Accident Victim

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 28 February 1930 · page 4

Mr. A. Thomas of High-street, West Maitland, who was injured in a motor collision near Four-Mile Creek, on the Newcastle-road, on Saturday…

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Accidental Death Manslaughter Charge Withdrawn

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 28 February 1930 · page 1

Following enquiries into the death, of Gladys May Warr, 23, who was shot on February 13, at the home of her grandmother, Mrs. M. A. Warr…

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Pest to Hospitals. Man Who Staged Many Bogus Accidents

Singleton Argus · Friday 28 February 1930 · page 4

Doctors and the police in many parts of England and Scotland have good cause to remember a Lancashire man named Joseph Howarth, aged 25, who…

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Fell Under Motor Lorry Miner's Death Was Accidental. Coroner's Finding

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 28 February 1930 · page 7

The circumstances under which John lngman, a Richmond Main miner, met his death at Kurri Kurri on Friday last was the subject of an…

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Miner Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 March 1930 · page 4

George Witherspoon 37, a miner, residing at Hebburn street PelawMain and employed at Louth Park colliery was admitted to the…

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Child Fatally Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 March 1930 · page 4

John McGregor 7, son of Mr. Norman McGregor of 61 Lee-street, West Maitland died in the Maitland Hospital early this morning from…

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Caught in Reeds Boy Drowned in Cook's River

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 March 1930 · page 2

Diving into Cook's River, at Croydon Park, Sidney George Prerott, aged 13, of Lindsay-street, Campaie became entangled in the roods…

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Still Unconscious Injured Jockey Condition Critical. Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 March 1930 · page 5

Jockey Mcllroy who sustained severs concussion whom Churnee fell in the Pines Hurdle on Saturday, is still unconscious, and in a critical…

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Shocking Tragedy Demented Father Attacks Children. One Dead, Three Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 March 1930 · page 6

A shocking tragedy was discovered in a house in Lawson-street, Albion, near Sunshine (Vic), on Sunday afternoon…

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Aged Man. Victim of Motor Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 March 1930 · page 2

Instant death befell Thomas Bothesti, aged 82, of Alfred street, North Sydney when a motor cycle with sidecar attached, in which he was seated…

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Fatal Motor Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 March 1930 · page 4

Arising out of the fatal motor accident near Four mile Creek , on the Newcastle Maitland road, on February 22, when William Jewell died from…

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Injured Boy Dies

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 4 March 1930 · page 2

John McGregor (7), of Lee Street, West Maitland, who was run over by a lorry on Saturday morning, died in Maitland Hospital on Monday…

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Motor Fatality. Salesman on Serious Charge. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 March 1930 · page 5

At the Balmain Court to-day, Thomas Mowbray Edols, 25, a salesman, was charged with having feloniously slain William Balingham Kelly, at…

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Crushed to Death. Motor Accident New Inverell. [?]Verell

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 March 1930 · page 6

A man was crushed to death and two others were seriously injured last night, when a motor lorry got out of control, swerved across the…

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Hilldale Fatality Inquiry Into Accident. Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 March 1930 · page 7

Mr. J. R. [?] the [?] Deputy Cornoer, held an inquest at Cessnock to-day concerning the death of Sidwell Williams, 42, a miner, who…

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