Car Accident
When Mr. and Mrs. Wells of Cessnock were returning home on Sunday night the lights of their car failed and the car hit one of the stones on the…
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Fatal Road Accident Tragic End to Party
Maud MacDonald, 22, was killed last night when she was thrown from a somersaulting car on the Armidale-road, about 14 miles from Glen Innes…
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A police party assisted by civilians recovered the body of Digby Henry Lawrell, 72, a pensioner, who was drowned when crossing Lynch's…
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The Coroner, Mr. W. P. B. Hungerford, J.P., conducted an inquiry into the death of Thomas Michael Boland, aged 21, who was shot dead at Car…
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Jack Flynn, 33, of Hunter-street West, Newcastle, suffered a fracture of the right hand, lacerations to the right leg, injuries to the head and…
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George Bromage, 20, of Kurri Kuvri, suffered a probable fracture of the right collarbone while playing at Wickham Oval. At the same oval Edwin…
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Mr. Ernie Metcalfe, 21, of John st., Singleton, had a small bone just above the ankle in his right leg broken while playing in the second grade football…
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LEN KNIGHT, 21. of Fern-street, Islington, dislocated his left collarhone while playing football at Kurri Kurri yesterday. He was brought to…
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Victor James Honeybrook, 29, and Donald McLemon, 12, of Rozelle, suffered extensive injuries when a big wave dashed them against some…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Shot by Son Pokolbin Accident CESSNOCK
While shooting parrots in a paddock at his home at Mistletoe Farm, Pokolbin, this morning, a youth accidentally shot his mother, Mrs. L. A. Burston,…
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Clarence Baker was admitted to hospital on Sunday afternoon suffering from a foot injury sustained in a collision with a utility truck…
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The death of Arnold K. Marchant, 10, at St. John's-road, Glebe, was accidental, the City Coroner (Mr. Oram) found. Evidence was that he was…
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Mrs. Augustus Hughes, of Dockyard, accompanied by her sister-in-law, Mrs. Reginald Hughes, was driving in William-street, Raymond Terrace,…
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Alfred Skyrm, 50, of Cumberland Street, Cessneck a miner, employed at Aberdare Central colliery, received an injury to…
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Noil Sheckey 23, was critically injured when a collision occurred between a car and the bicycle that he was riding. Sheekey's injuries include…
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While shovelling coal at Aberdare Central Colliery, Alfred Skyrm, 50, of Cumberland-street, Cessnock, a miner, received an injury to his left…
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Struck by a fall of coal while at work at Neath Colliery to-day, James Miller (50), of Main-road, Neath, sustained a lacerated scalp and lacerations to the…
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A Simple accident which befell Mr Cleve Sawkins, son of Mr. R. C. Sawkins, our popular Show secretary; led to the necessity of the young man…
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Proceeding at a fast pace to the assistance of a man who had been seriously injured in a State forest in the Taree district on Thursday morning,…
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A sensational incident occurred at Pokolbin yesterday, when Mrs. L. A. Burston, of Mistletoe Farm, was…
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