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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1858

3 stories in Murray's papers

Fatal Accident to a Passenger by the Gundagai Mail

The Border Post · Saturday 13 February 1858 · page 2

About nine o’clock on Saturday morning last, many persons congregated about the Post Office were somewhat alarmed on noticing the Albury mail rush up to the office…

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Colonial Intelligence. the Case of Drowning at Bendigo.(from the Bendigo Advertiser.)

The Border Post · Saturday 2 October 1858 · page 2

An inquest was held yesterday before Dr. Roche District Coroner, at the Australian Hotel, on the body of William Jones, who was found drowned in a waterhole near the above-named…

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Miscellaneous. Resuscitation of Persons DROWNED.(From the Hampshire Advertiser.)

The Border Post · Wednesday 13 October 1858 · page 4

On Saturday, the 10th October, a young man named William Kanes, aged 18, in the employ of Mrs. Cozens, fishmonger, met with an accident, which, but for the scientific…

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