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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1930

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Charge of Manslaughter Thomas Freeman's Death St. Kilda Road Fatality

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 28 October 1930 · page 3

In the Criminal Court, Melbourne, on Thursday, before Mr. Justice Lowe, Harold True, 39 years, of Milford-st., St. Kilda, photographer, was charged…

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Scalding Accident

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 28 October 1930 · page 2

John Walker was admitted to Deniliquin Hospital on Friday suffering from the effects of scalding. He had been driving a tractor, and on…

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Motor Fatality at Bathurst. An Architect Killed. SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 31 October 1930 · page 2

Kenneth Webb (34), architect was found dead beside his car, near Bathurst, this morning. There were indications that the car skidded, dropped…

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Albury District Court Holbrook Motor Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 October 1930 · page 30

In the Albury District Court, before Judge Coyle, Reston William Nish sued Jack William Arnold, of Albury, to recover £-100 damages sustained by…

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Farmer Accidentally Shot

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 October 1930 · page 33

Mr. Johann Frederick Wilhelm Fechner, aged 54 years, a farmer, of Dart Dart, was killed as the result of a gun accident. It is thought that in…

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Fearful Railway Accident. To French Express Train. Fifteen Bodies Recovered. PARIS

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 31 October 1930 · page 2

Travelling down a gradient, at 60 miles per hour, the Geneva-Bordeaux express, drawn by two engines, was derailed at Perigueux. The engines…

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General News Fatality at Lock 10

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 1 November 1930 · page 2

Dragging operations were carried out all last week by the Wentworth police for the body of Henry McKinnon, who was drowned on Monday 20th…

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Farmer Injured by Stripper. Sydney, Tuesday Noon

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 4 November 1930 · page 2

Mr. J. A. Off[?]er, of Green Hill, Dripstone, in the Wellington district, New South Wales was working a stripper in a paddock, when he was knocked…

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Grazier Injured in Car Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 November 1930 · page 3

Mr. Robert Whitehead, a prominent Western District grazier, was admitted to a private hospital at Warrnambool (Vic.) suffering from severe head…

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Three Women Injured

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 November 1930 · page 35

Four women were injured, three of them seriously, when a motor car overturned, following the collapse of a wheel, on Fern Tree Gully road, near…

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Terrible Mining Fatality 160 Men Killed Columbus (Ohio) Wed

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 7 November 1930 · page 1

Rep[?]ating that 160 men have been killed in an explosion in Sunday Creek Coal mine, have been received by the Governor of the State…

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The Toll of Airplanes. Fatal Accidents of 1930. LONDON

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 7 November 1930 · page 1

Making the 60th death in R.A.F. aeroplane accidents, for 1930, a pilot was killed instantly when a plane crashed at Ingatestone, tail first…

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Lucky Escape From Death Whilst Descending a Well Accident at Culcairn

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 7 November 1930 · page 4

Mr. J. Gardiner had a narrow escape from death on Saturday whilst he was descending a well on Mr. E. Adams' properly in…

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Culcairn Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 11 November 1930 · page 2

Whilst motoring from [?] to Culcairn to attend the wedding of his grand daughter, Mr. R. Harris, of [?] aged 78 years, sustained…

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Drowning Fatality

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 14 November 1930 · page 6

Mr. Allan Wade, aged 21 years, a son of the Rev. Eustace Wade, of Ridley College, Parkville, Melbourne, and for some years minister in charge of…

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A Brighton Beach Fatality. Melbourne

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 14 November 1930 · page 1

The body of a young man who was drowned at Brighton Beach, on Monday, has been identified as Thomas Anthony Pepper (21), a student…

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Serious Windlass Accident. Sydney, Wednesday Noon

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 14 November 1930 · page 1

Richard Goodfellow (65), a well-known grazier, met with a shocking accident at Barrallier, in the Goulburn district. He was turning the…

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Surfing Fatality Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 18 November 1930 · page 1

James Moults, 27. lost by [?] at Way Way yesterday [?] in at tempting to rescue several [?] were in danger. The [?]…

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Struck by Electric Train Fettler Fatally Injured. SYDNEY, Tuesday Noon

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 18 November 1930 · page 2

William Connell (54), a fetter[?] working on the railway line[?] Chatswood station this morning which he was struck by an electric train[?]…

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Collision at Antwerp. Five Seamen Drowned. ANTWERP

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 21 November 1930 · page 2

Five were drowned in the River Scheldt when the British steamer Hebble and a continental freighter collided. The latter sank in a few…

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