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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Accidents

Accidents, 1906

130 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 7 of 7

Pea Rifle Accident

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 30 November 1906 · page 20

MR. J. LLOYD, clerk in the Commercial Bank at Parkes, met with a painful shooting accident the other day. He. was carrying a pea rifle and tripped…

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Driving Fatality

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 7 December 1906 · page 16

A SAD death occurred on Saturday at Forbes Hospital. Robert Powell, a shearer's cook, was crossing the iron bridge at Forbes in a sulky whilst a…

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Sad Burning Fatality

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 7 December 1906 · page 7

GRETA MAITLAND, the little daughter of Mr. Maitland, police magistrate at Goulburn, who was burned on Wednesday afternoon through the…

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Drowned in Whisky

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 7 December 1906 · page 8

WHAT a tantalising cablegram was that for old topers which came to hand for last issue about the distillery breaking down in Glasgow, and…

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Shooting Accident

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 7 December 1906 · page 7

A WIRE from Gundagai states:—George Perry, aged 5, son of Mr. James Perry, living at Jugiong, went to the box of an elder brother, and…

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Wyalong Accident

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 14 December 1906 · page 7

ON Wednesday of last week, Mr. Barnett of Yalgogrin, brother to Mr. C. W. Barnett, of Peak Hill, was driving a sulky in company with…

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Local Items. Scalding Accident

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 21 December 1906 · page 2

On Thursday morning little Reeve Attenborough a child of tender years, sun of Mr J. G. Attenborough of "Currawong:", Eugowra road, mot with a most…

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Fully Injured

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 22 December 1906 · page 3

A worthy town guide got married recently and with admirable foresight be at once took a life insurance policy. The couple only lived for a few weeks in…

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Sad Fatality

Western Champion · Friday 28 December 1906 · page 6

The numerous friends of Mr Mat Lahy in this district will read the following (which we c'ip from a Brisbane paper) with the deepest feelings of…

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Hospital Fatality

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 29 December 1906 · page 2

A very sad accident happened at the Wyalong Hospital on Christmas night at about half-past eight o'clock, by which James O'Rou[?]ke (who had…

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Found Drowned a London Mystery

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 29 December 1906 · page 4

On 13th March a young public-house manager named, Leonard Saught, left his lodgings at Battersea to meet a young woman to whom he was engaged…

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