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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1934

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Hindus and Moslems Grave Religious Riots Two Killed: Manx Injured Calcutta, September 3

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 4 September 1934 · page 3

Bitter feeling between Hindus and Moslems at Agra over a noise created by Hindus during worship in a private temple adjoining the Moslem…

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Accidents

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 4 September 1934 · page 2

Messrs M. Johnson and George Strong on Sunday morning last at the Recreation Reserve. They were…

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Painter’s Fatal Fall an Accidental Finding Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 4 September 1934 · page 2

Adjourned from , August 22 so that Melbourne City Council scaffold inspector could give evidence, the inquest on the death of Bernard Rydar…

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Street Fatality An Unknown Man Dead Found on Footpaths Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 5 September 1934 · page 2

An unknown man, aged about 30, was found unconscious at the corner of Cleveland and Crown streets. Red[?] last night He was conveyed…

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Right Leg Injured Gangers Claim Succeeds AWARDED £955 Damages. Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 5 September 1934 · page 5

John Campbell, 53, ganger of Ratings, who claimed £2000 damages from George Billson, manager, of Clendon Road, Toorak, for permanent…

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Religious Rioting Clashes is India Four Killed 50 Injured CALCUTTA, September 4

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 5 September 1934 · page 3

Pour persons were killed and nearly 50 injured at the week end in Hindu Moslem riots at Agra. The situation is now under…

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Unknown Man Drowned Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 6 September 1934 · page 2

The body of an unknown man was recovered from the water near South Wharf this evening. He was middle aged. The body has been in the…

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Items of News Women in Sensational Truck Accident

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 6 September 1934 · page 2

A sensational motor accident occurred on Sunday morning on Omeo Highway, near Mr. Roy Cardwell’s property, about six miles from…

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Show Horse Injured

The Independent · Friday 7 September 1934 · page 2

White being exercised on Sunday [?]or to taking part in the Deniliquin Show on Wednesday, a three-year-old stallion (Giru-Bootawa)…

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Fighting in South Carolina. Ten Killed; 41 Injured. Washington

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 7 September 1934 · page 2

The death toll has now reached ten, with 41 injured. Six strikers were shot dead at Honeapath, South Carolina, in a battle between workers and…

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Rain Mars Wonderful Exhibition Considerable Decrease in Attendance Splendid Display in All Sections Two Minor Accidents Mixed with Good Jumping in Ring Events

The Independent · Friday 7 September 1934 · page 2

It was the general opinion that but for the drizzling rain which commenced in the early, morning and continued during the afternoon,…

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Jury Locked Up Mrs. Anderson’s Trial “Shooting Was an Accident” WAGGA

Border Morning Mail · Friday 7 September 1934 · page 1

The trial of Mrs. Lillian Anderson, on a charge of having murdered her husband, Moncrieff Anderson, was continued at…

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Sailor Killed Ashore Outfit-car Collision Perth

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 8 September 1934 · page 23

When a train and motor-cycle outfit crashed at midnight on the Mount Bay road a sailor, believed to be Reg[?] Philips, from one of the Australian…

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C.P. President Injured Both Legs Are Crushed Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 8 September 1934 · page 23

The chief president of the United Country Party (Mr. A. E. Hocking) was injured when some machinery fell on him at his property at…

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Car Crashes Three Persons Injured Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Monday 10 September 1934 · page 2

When a motor car swerved off the road in Melbourne avenue, Elwood, and crashed into an electric light standard, two men and a woman…

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Toll of the Road Two People Killed Several are Injured MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Monday 10 September 1934 · page 2

Three persons, two whom live in Geelong, were injured at 11.20 last night when they were struck by a motor car that drove…

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Miraculous Escape Motor Car Somersaults Accident Beyond Holbrook

Border Morning Mail · Monday 10 September 1934 · page 2

Whilst driving his motor car about [?] miles beyond Holbrook at [?] p.m. on Saturday, Mr. George Sor[?] his Wife, Miss G[?] Mr. Almack, the…

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Boy Injured

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 11 September 1934 · page 1

When playing at the railway turn-table with other boys, Douglas Coutts, 10 years of age, was severely injured The turntable was moving and Coutts…

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Champion Horseman L. J. Hynes Seriously Injured Fall From Redditch Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 11 September 1934 · page 6

L. J.. Hynes, the prominent cross-country rider, was seriously injured morning, when Redditoh, one of the best-known steeplechasers in…

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Redditch Injured Will Not Compete at Moonee Valley. Jockey Taken to Hospital, Melbourne

The Independent · Tuesday 11 September 1934 · page 3

Crashing into a brush fence, at Mentone to-day, Redditch, the champion steeplechaser, was so seriously injured that he will not be able to…

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