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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1935

1,311 stories in Murray's papers · page 63 of 66

Girl and Youth Injured Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 14 December 1935 · page 10

Hugh Cowman, 19, High street, Northcote, and Mavis Harbourn, 17, of Sussex street. Preston, both received lacerations to their faces when…

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Manslaughter Alleged Doctor for Trial Surgery Fatality Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 14 December 1935 · page 1

Allan John Botliamley, medical practitioner, of Johnson street, Fitzroy, was committed for trial on a charge of manslaughter…

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Widow’s Claim Settled To Receive £615 Out of £1000 Sequel to Accident Near Euroa Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 14 December 1935 · page 6

The settlement of an action in which Mrs. Margaret Steele, of York street, St. Kilda, claimed £1000 for the loss of her husband, was…

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Motor Cyclist Injured Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Monday 16 December 1935 · page 1

When the motor cycle he was riding collided with a motor car in Ballarat road, Footscary, this morning, Ronald Eastwood, 37, Nicholson…

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Trams in Smash Five Persons Injured Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Monday 16 December 1935 · page 1

Five [?]s were injured in a collision between two trams on the Harbor bridge last night. One tram had stopped and the other crashed into…

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Two Men Injured Doctor Is Arrested Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Monday 16 December 1935 · page 1

As the last cable tram on Saturday night was being shunted into the tram sheds at the Brunswick terminus, a motor car travelling along…

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Burnt to Death Little Girl is Victim Fatality at Culcairn Was the Only Child

Border Morning Mail · Monday 16 December 1935 · page 1

Margaret (“Peggy”) Elliot, aged 4[?] years, the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Elliot, of Culcairn, was fatally, burned on…

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Collision Sequels Cases at Wodonga and Albury

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 17 December 1935 · page 3

At the Wodonga Court last week, Gregory Reed, of Brunswick, was charged with driving a motor car on the wrong side of the road near…

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Child Burned Fatality at Culcairn When Hessian Around Body Ignites

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 17 December 1935 · page 2

While playing in a cubby house on the back verandah of her parents' home at Culcairn on Saturday evening last, Margaret ("Peggy")…

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Pekin Disturbances. Fifteen Injured; Ten Killed. Pekin

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 17 December 1935 · page 2

Ten were killed and 15 injured today, when the police, using the flats of their swords, charged 5000 students demonstrating against Japanese…

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Show Fatality Death of Miss Eve Daly Claim for Compensation Fails

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 17 December 1935 · page 3

The hearing of a Supreme Court action in which Murlel Gwendeline Alice Daly claimed the sum of £2000 from Fredrick Engelbert for…

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Dog’s Heroic Effort Attempted to Save Drowning Boy Story Told at Inquest Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 17 December 1935 · page 1

How a sheep dog tried to save the life of his youthful master was related to-day when an inquest into the death of Brien John Farnan, 7,…

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Head-on Crash Four People Injured Woman’s Skull Fractured Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 17 December 1935 · page 3

Four people were injured, one seriously, in a head-on collision between a motor car and a two-ton truck on the Point Nepean road, Aspendale,…

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War Trophy in Incinerator Two Men Injured by Explosion Auckland (N.z.)

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 17 December 1935 · page 1

Somebody threw a discarded war trophy in the form of a shell of small calibre in their garbage, can at Takapuna, and when the rubbish reached…

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A Costly Collision Informant Loses Case Lawyer’s Fee and Other Expenses Total £15/19/11

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 17 December 1935 · page 3

A case arising out of a collision between two motor cars at the intersection of Olive and Hovell streets on October 20,…

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Triple Collision Cycle Motor and Tram Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 18 December 1935 · page 2

A motor truck, a motor cycle, and a cable tram were involved in a collision at the intersection of Clarendon street and City road, South…

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An American’s Death Drowned While Intoxicateo Evidence at Inquest Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 18 December 1935 · page 2

The death of James Taylor, 26 porter on the Matson Line steamer, Monterey was described to-day at the inquest held before the City,…

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Workman Runs Amok And Slays Former Comrades Four Dead; Two Seriously Injured Los Angeles, December 10

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 18 December 1935 · page 3

A workman, aged 44, who apparently brooded over his discharge as a water carrier in a construction gang on a Federal…

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TALLANGATTA Young Man In Accident

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 18 December 1935 · page 5

When driving to Tallangatta on Saturday evening in a gig. He[?]y, Young, who is employed at Noorongang, was thrown from the vehicle…

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Elderly Pastoralist. Killed in Collision at Crossing. BRISBANE

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 20 December 1935 · page 1

John Nicholson (72), a well known pastoralist was fatally injured when the car he was driving was struck by the second division of the Western…

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