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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1924

243 stories in Murray's papers · page 8 of 13

Fatal Motor-cycle Accident. At Aspendale Races. MELBOURNE

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 10 June 1924 · page 2

At the Aspendale motor-cycle races to-day a cycle and side car, going 60 miles an hour somersaulted. The rider, A. Lehmann, was killed…

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Telegraphic News. Sydney, Tuesday. Fatal Train Accident

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 11 June 1924 · page 2

Adelaide—A man supposed to be E. Lynch was run down by a train while riding a a cycle over a level crossing. The body was so…

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Fatal Accidents

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 11 June 1924 · page 2

Mr. J. B. Walker, the head of the firm of Walker, May & Coy., printers, was killed in Melbourne on Saturday night as a result of being…

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Race Track Accident Two Jockeys Injured. MELBOURNE

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 13 June 1924 · page 2

Two jockeys and a horse were injured on the tracks at Flemington this morning. Godwin Star, ridden by Whatelly, was galloping on the…

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Motor Cycle Racing. Shocking Fatality at Aspendale

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 June 1924 · page 18

A shocking occurrence was witnessed at the is Birthday meeting of the Aspendale Park Racing Club, which was held on Aspendale Park…

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The Receal Motor Fatality. Taylor Committed for Trial

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 13 June 1924 · page 6

Police witnesses told the coroner (Mr.Berriman) on Tuesday that the motor car numberd 771,produced an evidence at the inquest on the death of…

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The Toll of the Motor. Another Frightful Accident. Three Women Killed at Dungog

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 June 1924 · page 28

A terrible motor smash occurred on Tuesday at dusk on the road near Dungog, in the Hunter River district. Margaret Forte was killed outright…

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Shocking Motor Accident. Three Women Lose their Lives

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 13 June 1924 · page 2

Three women were killed and two other women and the driver of the car badly injured on Tuesday evening near Dungog. The names of the…

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Accident to Mr. L. M. Timms. Terminates Fatally. The Inquiry

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 17 June 1924 · page 2

The young man, Murray Leo Timms, who met with an accident, at West Hay, on Thursday, as described in our last issue, succumbed to his injuries…

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Fatal Motor Accident. Mr. Justice McFarlan's Car Knocks Down a Child. MELBOURNE

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 17 June 1924 · page 2

John Wilson, five, of St. Kilda, was knocked down and killed, with, a fractured skull, at St. Kilda yesterday, by a car driven by Mr. Justice…

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Two Fatal Motor Accidents

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 18 June 1924 · page 2

Justice McFarlane's motor car killed a child five years of ago in Brighton road through the mother calling it back. Justice Macfarlane stopped immediately…

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Fatality at Bondi. Man Washed off Rocks

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 20 June 1924 · page 1

Edward Blade, 45, a native of England, single, was drowned at Bondi. He was seen walking along the rocks when a wave washed him into the…

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Fatal Collision in Norway. Mail Steamer Sinks. Score of Lives Lost. LONDON

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 20 June 1924 · page 1

A Christiania message states that a score of deaths, mostly women and children, took place after a collision of the mail steamers Haakonjarl and…

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Motor Accident at Devil's Elbow

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 June 1924 · page 11

One man was killed outright, and three others were injured when a car overturned at the Devil's Elbow, Bacchus Marsh, Vic. The names of the…

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A Motor Bus Accident. The Driver Arrested

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 20 June 1924 · page 2

A motor bus at North Sydney yesterday evening skidded and struck the kerb, then smashed a verandah post, and knocked down Violet…

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Latest Telegrams, Boarding a Moving Train. Accident at Liverpool. SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 24 June 1924 · page 3

While trying to board a moving train, whereon was his wife and sister, Edgar Lang, a well known resident of Liverpool, fell between the…

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A Colliery Accident. Twenty-Two Men Injured

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 27 June 1924 · page 1

A serious accident occurred at the Stanford-Merthyr colliery, Kurri Kurri yesterday afternoon. While forty nine miners were being hauled to the…

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A Kensington Accident

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 1 July 1924 · page 2

Gindi is unlikely to sport silk again for at least six months, as the result of injuries to his shoulder and leg, sustained when he fell in the hurdle…

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Motor Cycle Accident. One Killed; Three Injured

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 4 July 1924 · page 1

A motor cycle ana sidecar, containing two men and two women, swerved off a culvert and fell fifteen, feet into a gully near Cudal on…

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Found Drowned in Domain. a Woman's Death

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 8 July 1924 · page 2

The discovery of a woman's dead body near the Domain Baths, has brought out a statement by a citizen who alleges that the woman lived in…

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