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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1935

1,311 stories in Murray's papers · page 12 of 66

Country Edition The following appeared in our Country Edition of Wednesday. Fatal Car Accident. Two Deaths Reported. SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 15 February 1935 · page 1

When a car in which they were travelling from Tamworth to Nemingha, overturned last night, Alice Tuckey (19) and Russell McLeod (31),…

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Fatal Motor Accident in Victoria. Three Mien, Killed

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 15 February 1935 · page 2

A fatal motor accident took place on the Salisbury Road, nine miles from Inglewood, on Tuesday night, when three men, William R. Hawkes,…

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Cyclist Badly Injured Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 16 February 1935 · page 1

In a collision with a car, while riding his motor-cycle to work along Sydney road, Brunswick, this Morning, Harry Bottle, 19, of Odessa…

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Young Man Drowned Tried to Get Duck in Lagoon Tragedy at Milawa Wangaratta

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 16 February 1935 · page 5

At mid-day to-day a young man named Jack White was drowned in a lagoon on the property of Mr. Jack Allan, at Milawa. He and a…

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Shooting in Dark. Ducks Scared Before Dawn Several Shooters Injured Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 16 February 1935 · page 5

Many duck. shooters were unable to restrain their impatience after [?] night and opened fire, with the result that When the majority of sportsmen…

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Accident Menace Measures to Protect Child Life

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 16 February 1935 · page 4

"A centenarian was once asked for an explanation of his long life. He pointed out that during the first seventy-five years there had been no…

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Cyclists in Collision Two Men Seriously Injured Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Monday 18 February 1935 · page 4

Serious injured were sustained by two men Ion Saturday night when a motor, cycle, they were riding crashed, head on into a motor lorry near…

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Bees Attack Injured Hives Released When Collision Occurs Motor Lorry and Car Adelaide

Border Morning Mail · Monday 18 February 1935 · page 4

Several persons who were injured in a collision between a motor lorry and a motor car near Port Pirie yesterday were savagely attacked by…

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A Strange Tragedy Mother and Child Drowned Perambulator Found on Pier Perth

Border Morning Mail · Monday 18 February 1935 · page 1

A strange tragedy, occurred at the Redlands Pier, last night, when Gladys Hiller, of Hollywood, and her daughter Maureen Delvs Hiller aged…

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Shockingly Injured Crippled Pensioner Leg Torn Off; Arms Crushed ADELAIDE

Border Morning Mail · Monday 18 February 1935 · page 4

Richard Western 70, a crippled pensioner, was shockingly injured when he was knocked down by a motor cycle in Unley road,…

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Cyclists in Nasty Smash Duncan Gray Injured Collarbone Fractured Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Monday 18 February 1935 · page 1

A serious smash occurred in the last lap of the senior five-mile cycling championship at Henson Park last night. Half the field came down…

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Thirty Bee Hives Upset Collision Victims Stung

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 19 February 1935 · page 4

As the result of a collision near Port Pirie (S. A) on Saturday, between a motor lorry, on which thirty hives of bees were being carried, and a motor…

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Struck a Snag Local Swimmer Injured

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 19 February 1935 · page 1

Mr. Arthur Lackington, of North Deniliquin, was diving at the Brewery Bend on Sunday when he struck a snag under the water…

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Two Ladies Injured When Car Turns Over

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 19 February 1935 · page 1

Misses Gwen Tuckwell and May Nisbet were travelling in a baby sedan car on Friday when a tyre blew out and the vehicle turned over. Both…

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Items of News Motor Accident Victim has Fractured [?]

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 19 February 1935 · page 2

Percy Henshaw, who was admitted Albury Hospital several days ago after being struck by a motor lorry is Improving. He is not likely,…

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Girl Drowned Tragedy at Corowa Swept Away by Current

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 20 February 1935 · page 1

Violet Richardson, nine, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Richardson, South Corowa, was drowned in the Murray River…

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Detonator Explodes Two Men Injured in Trench One Seriously Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 20 February 1935 · page 3

Thomas McComb, 31, of Gladesville, was seriously Injured and James Fletcher, 44, of Pyrmont, was slightly [?]urst in an unusual explosion to-day…

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Gunpowder Explodes One Man Killed: 4 Injured Wellington (N.z.)

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 20 February 1935 · page 3

One man was killed and four others were injured to-day when [?] explo[?] in a tent at Hastings…

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Hood-renown Collision Three Courts-martial Likely Rear Admiral and Captains London, Feb. 19

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 21 February 1935 · page 4

As of result of this recent collision between H.M.S Hood, which took the Price of Wales to Australia, and H.M.S. Renown, on which the Duke…

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Life Was Risked Effort to Save Drowning Boy Coroner’s Commendation Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Friday 22 February 1935 · page 2

A verdict of accidental death was returned by the coroner to-day at the conclusion, of the inquest into the death of Ronald Ernest Cleland…

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