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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1936

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Albury Rifle Fatality Firearm Law to Be Improved

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 September 1936 · page 4

At Albury court house on Wednesday afternoon the deputy coroner (Mr. G. A. Gray) inquired into the circumstances surrounding the death of…

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Motoring Fatality on Mulwala-corowa Road Inquest at Mulwala

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 18 September 1936 · page 5

An inquest was held at Mulwala on Monday last by the Coroner (Mr. W. G. Cross), assisted by Constable J. T. Marshall,. into the cause of the…

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Polar Explorers Drowned When Storm Sinks Ship Copenhagen, September 16

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 18 September 1936 · page 5

Dr. Charcot, leader of the French Polar expedition, aboard the vessel, Pourquol Pas, and the crew, were drowned with one…

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Intent to Murder Charge Injured Man Identifies Assailant Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 18 September 1936 · page 5

Early this morning John Joseph Finnie 34, labourer, was charged at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital with having shot at Norman…

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Land Crashes in Norway 74 DEAD; 60 INJURED Oslo, Sept. 14

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 September 1936 · page 12

Crashing into the placid waters of Lake Loen, in the Nordfjord district of West Norway, to-day, a huge mass of rock and earth resulted in the…

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Fatal Motor Accident. Crash Through Railing. SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 18 September 1936 · page 2

Harry Denning (22), of Crookwell, was killed instantly and Frederick Davidson (45) was injured critically, last night, when their motor lorry…

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Sad Death of Boy. From Accidental Injuries

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 18 September 1936 · page 2

Donald James Morris, the one year and ten months old child, of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Morris, of Hay, died in the Hay Hospital this morning, as the…

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Boating Accident on Edward River Boys' Lucky Escape From Drowning Boat Swamped in Flooded River

The Independent · Monday 21 September 1936 · page 2

Four Deniliquin boys had a sensational adventure on the Edward River on Saturday afternoon. Procuring a boat up river, near the weir,…

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Bath Heater Explodes Several Injured Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 22 September 1936 · page 2

Miss Delshunty suffered concussion, and several other persons had a remarkable escape from injury late last night when…

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Sad Happening. Boy Meets With Fatal Accident in River Bend

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 22 September 1936 · page 2

At what is known as the Bushy Bend, a sad accident occurred yesterday afternoon as a result of which James Frederick Lee, aped nine…

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The Double Murder Fatality

The Independent · Thursday 24 September 1936 · page 1

At the inquest at Mulwala into the death of Mr. A. R. Browning and Miss Florence Jean Dennis, who were killed in a motor accident near…

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Horse Falis on Rider Mr. C. S. Joss Injured

The Independent · Thursday 24 September 1936 · page 2

As a result of his horse falling on him when he was cutting out cattle on his property. "Balmoral," Mr. C. S. Joss sustained a badly sprained…

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Struck by Axe Accident At MATHOURA

The Independent · Thursday 24 September 1936 · page 2

Whilst engaged chopping wood, Mr. Jim Young received nasty cut on the forehead when his axe caught on a clothes line…

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Accident

The Independent · Thursday 24 September 1936 · page 2

When one of Mr L. B. Horton's trotters was being driven and another led from a sulky on Tuesday, a dog ran at the latter, which swung…

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Corowa Road Fatality

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 September 1936 · page 33

In our report in last issue of the motor accident on Corowa road, in which Mr. A. R. Browning and Miss Jean Dennis lost their lives, it was…

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Pilgrims Killed Rail Accident Near Lourdes Priests Attend to Injured PARIS.--Sept. 23

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 25 September 1936 · page 5

Priests from Lourdes' rendered first old to injured in a rall account at Tabres. in which it is reported 14 were killed and 23 injured, including…

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Disaster in Arctic French Ship Sinks All Drowned But One

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 September 1936 · page 30

The loader of the French Polar Expedition (Dr. J. B. Charcot) and every member of the party except one were drowned when their vessel, the…

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Cane Train Falls Through Bridge Three Men Injured

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 September 1936 · page 39

Three men were injured, one seriously, when a cane locomotive fell through a tramway bridge over a tidal creek running into the Maroochy River…

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Bomb Explodes in Havana Four Dead; 27 INJURED Havana, Sept. 20

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 September 1936 · page 12

Four persons were killed and 27 were injured when a bomb that had been concealed in a small truck shattered the office of the newspaper…

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Two Killed Hume Highway Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 September 1936 · page 33

Two men were killed and a third was injured when a sedan car crashed into a tree on the Hume Highway near Liverpool. The victims were:—Dead…

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