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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1920

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The Daily Pea Rifle Fatality Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 17 January 1920 · page 2

Berty Hurst, 7 years old, and his bro­ther, James, 16 years old, were playing with a pea rifle at Parramatta to-day, when the weapon exploded. The bullet…

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Drowned Little Brother. Boy Who Did Not Know Right From Wrong

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 17 January 1920 · page 1

The story of a boy who did not know the difference between right and wrong was told at an inquest at Horwich, near Manchester. The inquiry was into the…

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Another Motor Smash. One Killed: Three Injured Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 17 January 1920 · page 5

Four people were injured in a motor car smash in Anzac parade, Moore Park, early this morning, and one girl, Miss Olga Neville, 26 years of age, whose skull…

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Another Motor Accident Girl Seriously lNJURED. SYDNEY

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 19 January 1920 · page 2

Owing to a collision between a tram and a motor car yesterday afternoon, a young woman named Vera Filmer sustained a fractured skull. The car was…

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Drowning Fatality at Hay Young Soldier Loses His Life

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 20 January 1920 · page 2

A sad drowning accident took place yesterday afternoon, about 5 o'clock in the Murrumbidgee River a short distance above the bridge, by which a…

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Bendigonian Drowned. Child Hears Father's Cry. Melbourne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 22 January 1920 · page 2

While swimming off the beach near Pickle street, South Melbourne, to-day, A. Jonathan Reid, a visitor from Bendigo, disappeared…

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Boy Drowned in the Surf

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 2

The undertow in the surf at the north end of Coogee Beach on Monday, when the eleven-year-old boy Allan Sydney Thompson was drowned, is said to have…

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Reviving Victims of Drowning What You Should Do

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 4

Many lives would be saved if there were only someone on the spot who knew how to deal with the victim of the bathing accident. Of course, it is…

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Washed Off the Rocks Fisherman Drowned at Bronte

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 1

A fisherman named Ernest Biggins was drowned in the surf at Bronte on Friday afternoon. Higgins, who was fishing from the rocks, was washed…

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The Fatal River Accident. the Inquiry

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 2

On Wednesday morning the P.M., Mr. Longfield conducted an inquiry into the death of Mr. Thosi Bradley, the young man who lost his life in…

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Motor and Bicycle Collide. Bicycle Rider Injured

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 24 January 1920 · page 3

A remarkably narrow escape from a tragic accident occurred at -about 6 o'clock its night .it the intersection of Olive .and Wilson street Albury, near the corner of Dr. paton's residence…

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Drowned While Sure[?] Plucky Rescuer Also Per Sydney, [?]

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 26 January 1920 · page 2

Johanna Rogers, 32 years of [?] surfing at Palm Beach this after [?] she was caught in the curre[?] out to sea…

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Woman Drowned While Fishing. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 27 January 1920 · page 2

While Miss Helen Gilchrist, 26, who lived in Macquarie street. Leichhardt, was fishing on the rocks between Curl Curl and Dee Why this morning a large wave…

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Latest Telegrams. Sydney. Monday Evening Double Surfing Fatality

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 27 January 1920 · page 2

A double surfing fatality took place at Palm Beach on Sunday afternoon, when Johanna Rogers was caught in the current and taken out to sea…

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Station Hand Injured

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 January 1920 · page 32

Through the falling from his sulky in Baylis-street, Wagga, William, Timmins, a man of 58 years of age, sustained two broken bones and other injuries…

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Pacific's Toll Washed From Rocks. Girl Drowned at Dee Why. Sydney

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 30 January 1920 · page 1

Her prowess as a swimmer availing for nothing againat the trecherous breakers of the Pacific Ocean as they rolled, on to the rocky coast at Dee…

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Beach Tragedy. a Lost Hero. Girl Also Drowned. Magnificent Rescue Attempts Sydney

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 30 January 1920 · page 6

An epic tragedy, in which the sadness of death was brig Moned by cool unflinching heroism, was enacted at Palm Beach, a seaside resort near…

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Fatal Motor Cycle Accident. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 4 February 1920 · page 2

Phyllis Manning, aged 13, daughter of Mr, R. Manning, solicitor, of Neutral Bay, was killed in Sydney road, Manly, last night, through being thrown from…

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Flight. Matthews Meets with Accident. Delhi, Feb. 3

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 6 February 1920 · page 2

News was received to-day that the Sop with aeroplane in which Captain G. C. Matthews and Sergeant T. D. Kay are [?]ying to Australia has crashed down 20…

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Man Drowned at Illabo

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 16 February 1920 · page 3

A drowning accident occurred at Mlabo on Friday. The victim was Charles Longmore, a single man of 20 years of ago,who was share farming on…

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