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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1935

1,311 stories in Murray's papers · page 46 of 66

Cecil Gody in Accident Car Overturns Near Holbrook As a Remarkable Escape

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 24 August 1935 · page 4

The well-known Melbourne trainer, Mr. Cecil T. Godby, was concerned in a motoring accident, 12 miles from Holbrook, on Thursday…

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Baseball Injured Jaw Broken Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Monday 26 August 1935 · page 2

During a baseball game at the. Melbourne High School oval this afternoon, Arthur Easton, 29, Baker street, East Malvera, collided with another…

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Japanese Flood Disaster 52 KILLED; 75 Injured Tokio, August 24

Border Morning Mail · Monday 26 August 1935 · page 2

Fifty-two were killed and 75 injured, 1200 homes were swept away, and 20,00 acres or rice fields and apple, orchards have been…

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Sledge in Snow Injured Girl Taken to Help Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Monday 26 August 1935 · page 1

Miss Dora Lush, of Upper Hawthorn. who sprained her ankle at Mount [?] during the week, was drawn five [?] on a sledge to-day…

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Collision with Train Motorist Badly Hurt Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 27 August 1935 · page 3

Mr. D. Prance was seriously injured this afternoon when the afternoon train from Woomelang to Melbourne crashed into his car at a level crossing…

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A Sad Fatality. Young Boy Shot. SYDNEY, Monday Night

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 27 August 1935 · page 3

Milton McLean (14), was fatally injured when he was shot in the head by another lad, while rabbit shooting at Mount George, in the Wingham…

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Bird Crashes Into Engine. Express Driver Injured. SYDNEY, Tuesday Afternoon

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 27 August 1935 · page 2

A large bird, believed to be an owl shattered the glass of the driver's cabin of the Sydney bound Limited Express, from Melbourne, ten miles…

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Pedestrians Scattered a Driverless Motor Car a Woman Injured Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 27 August 1935 · page 1

Scattering pedestrians as it leapt the footpath a driverless motor car crashed through a plate glass window at Davidson and Company’s furniture…

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Boy Fatally Shot Mothers Dash to Hospital Injured When Car Overturns WINGHAM

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 27 August 1935 · page 3

Milton Lean, 14, was fatally injured to-day when he was shot in the head by another lad while rabbit shooting. His mother had…

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JINDERA Accident to Boy

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 27 August 1935 · page 5

Bert, the six-year-old sou of Mr. and Mrs. Alb Schulz met with an accident whilst his father was splitting timber in a paddock. A splinter…

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To See Injured Son Parents Use Aeroplane Accidentally Shot at Alice Spring SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 28 August 1935 · page 1

The aeroplane Spirit of Shell, left Sydney this afternoon for Alice Springs, where Mr. Trevor [?] Kilvington, lecturer in physiology at…

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Struck by Train Elderly Man Killed Fatality at Albury

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 28 August 1935 · page 2

Struck by a train shortly after 11 a.m. yesterday Frederick Flack Allan, aged 7[?] years, was killed on the railway line in the Albury…

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Two Young Men in Cycle Accident

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 28 August 1935 · page 2

Two young men, George and Neil Cottell, brothers, of Stanley, were found lying unconscious on the Stanley road, near Beechworth,…

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A Peculiar Accident Engine Driver is Victim Bird Shatters Cabin Glass Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 28 August 1935 · page 1

A large bird, believed to be an owl, shattered the glass of the driver’s cabin of the Sydney-bound limited express from Melbourne, 10 miles south…

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Newfoundland Gale [?] Fishermen Drowned St. Johns. August 27

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 29 August 1935 · page 3

It is estimated [?] 40 fishermen were drowned in the gale which struck southern Newfoundland during the week-end…

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Motor Cyclist Killed Girl Pillion Rider Injured Evidence to Be Taken at Hospital Melbourne, Wednesday

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 29 August 1935 · page 1

An accident that occurred on Tuesday, January 1, 1935, in which a motor cyclist was killed and a girl riding pillion with him critically injured, was…

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Victim of Peculiar Accident Car’s Tail Light Explodes Man Takes to Hospital Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 29 August 1935 · page 1

John Jasper, 24, of Manly, was injured in an unusual manlier to-day. He was adjusting the [?] light of a motor car when the bulb explained,…

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Clergyman Injured. In Car Collision. SYDNEY, Friday Noon

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 30 August 1935 · page 3

The Rev. A. James, of Marulan, was injured at Kensington, last night, when his motor car collided with another car. Both vehicles were badly…

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Claims Dismissed Collision Near Goornong

The Pastoral Times · Friday 30 August 1935 · page 3

In the Bendigo City Court before Mr E. B Stafford, P.M. the Federated Municipal and Shire Council Epiployees Union of Australia bought to…

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MULWALA Canal Worker Injured

Border Morning Mail · Friday 30 August 1935 · page 7

While at work on Mulwala canal on Wednesday W. Larmour, in charge of two scoops drawn by a tractor, was thrown from the rear one on which…

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