Brutal Attack Taxi-cab Driver Injured SYDNEY
Daniel Smith, a taxi-cab driver, was subjected to a brutal attack by three men who had hired his taxi early this morning in a lonely part of…
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Sequel to Accident Wollongong
In the Police Court, William George Lees, 31, was fined £15 on a charge of having driven a motor car whilst under the influence of liquor, and £1 for…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Road Toll Victorian Car Accidents MELBOURNE
Despite the introduction of a new traffic code to minimise traffic accidents, 311 persons died in Melbourne last year from injuries received in motor accidents…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Creek Fatality Young Boy Drowned
A six-year-old lad, Peter Wilson Watson, was drowned in Fishery Creek, near West Maitland, yesterday afternoon. The lad was bathing in a shallow part…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Children Saved From Drowning
Nola and Joan Dillon, aged 6 and 7 respectively, were saved from drowning in the surf at Byron Bay by Brian Maughan and Jack Wright,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cars in Collision Cessnock
Two cars, one of which was conveying miners to work at Aberdare Central colliery, collided at the intersection of Vincent street and Aberdare-road early this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Car Crash Five Occupants Injured GOSFORD
Five occupants of a car, travelling from Sydney to Woy Woy, narrowly escaped death on the Main Woy Woy road branching from the Pacific…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Schoolboy Injured
Sam McGregor, a schoolboy, remitting in Mount View Road, Cessnock, received injuries to the pelvis when a bicycle he…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bondi Surf Tragedy. Five Persons Drowned
Five persons are known to have been drowned and scores of others were rescued in the last stages of exhaustion when nearly 200…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →General News Young Cyclists Injured
Lawrence Drage, 14, of Cumberland Street, Cessnock, and Keith Chambers, 11, Cessnock, met with an unfortunate…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motoring Fatality. on Tomalla Road. Car Leaps 100 FEET
A traveller, Mr. Frederick G. Johns, 40 years of age, and representative of Messrs. Edwards' Bros., tea merchants, met his death on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motorist Killed. Injured Companion's Ordeal. SYDNEY
Ernest Thomas Campbell (42), commercial traveller, was driving a companion near Bong Bong bridge early this morning when the car left the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fell Under Lorry Schoolboy Injured CESSNOCK
When his bicycle skidded under a motor lorry in Vincent-street, Cessnock, this morning, Herbert McGregor, 14, a school boy, of Matthew…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Death After Accident Wollongong
Jessie Kenny, of Port Kemola, who received severe injuries when she was thrown from the pillion seat of a motor cycle on January 31, died in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Finger Severed Accident at Colliery CESSNOCK
William Duffin, 36, a resident of the Cessnock Hotel, employed as a miner af Aberdare Colliery, had the index finger of his right hand severed when…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Road Accidents Who Is Responsible?
In the Local Government column in the "Sydney Morning Herald" the question of road accidents is dealt with in a comprehensive fashion, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Back Injured
Arthur Crockett, 40, of Bella-street, Horseshoe Bend, received abrasions to the left forearm, and injuries to his back, when he slipped into a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Heart Failure and Not Drowning Surfer's Death
A post-mortem examination of the body of Frederick Sivewright, aged 52, of Newtown, on Monday showed that Sivewright's death in the surf…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Presence of Mind Saves Serious Accident
Through the driver, Mr E. Landers, steering the lorry he was driving up a steep bank at the side of the road; two passengers, Mr and Mrs Trapp,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Canberra Drowning Canberra
William Brown, 21, a native of Scotland, who had been employed for about eight months at a guest house in Canberra, was drowned in the Molonglo…
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