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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1947

424 stories in Murray's papers · page 17 of 22

Injured Changing Tyre

Border Morning Mail · Monday 22 September 1947 · page 2

Changing a tyre on a transport truck at Tabletop on Saturday morning, a young Sydney man, Reginald. Green, suffered concussion as a result…

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Items of News Wodonga Man Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 22 September 1947 · page 2

William Joyce, of High St., Wodonga, was taken to Albury Hospital by ambulance on Saturday evening with possibly fractured ribs. It is believed he…

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Opperman Injured in Fall on Track Broken Hill

Border Morning Mail · Monday 22 September 1947 · page 5

Champion cyclist Hobert Opperman was slightly injured in a tall on a cycling track here today. and had to abandon an attempt on a five miles…

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Deniliquin Footballers Injured

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 23 September 1947 · page 4

Just as an air of confident anticipations had settled over supporers of the Blue and Golds, a cloud of doubt has crept in…

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Drowning of Baby; Boy on Murder Charge

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 25 September 1947 · page 2

LONDON, Wed.: A boy aged nine years was remanded by the Hoylake Juvenile Court today on a charge of murdering a baby girl, whose body…

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Items of News Injured in Fall

Border Morning Mail · Friday 26 September 1947 · page 2

Mr Thomas Henry, of the Terminus Hotel, Albury was admitted to Albury hospital suffering from a lacerated scalp received when he fell and hit…

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Fireman Drowned Whilst Fishing

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 27 September 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.—Senior Fireman Arnold Barton, aged 33, of Hurstville, was washed off the rocks to his death near South Head lighthouse this…

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Items of News Man Fatally Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 29 September 1947 · page 2

Albert Ernest Snowden, aged 50, Wagga City Council employe, died in Wagga Base Hospital on Friday night from injuries received when…

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Truck Smashed; Three Men Injured

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 30 September 1947 · page 1

ADELAIDE, Mon.—When a rail car hit a truck of the army ammunition type which was crossing the railway line at Parafield this…

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Jews Blow Up Police Station; 47 Injured

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 30 September 1947 · page 1

JERUSALEM, Monday.—Early this morning Jewish terrorists blew up the Ha[?]a police station, rolling a barrel of explosives from a trailer attached to a truck, which was backed against the barbed wire barricade. Three British policemen were seriously…

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Tennis Champion Injured

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 1 October 1947 · page 6

BEVERLY HILLS (CAL.), Tues: Bob Falkenburg, the tennis champion, suffered a broken ankle and head injuries when he lost control of his jeep…

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25 Killed, 70 Injured In Rail Smash

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 2 October 1947 · page 1

BATAVIA, Wed.—Twenty-five Indonesian passengers were killed and 70 were seriously injured when four heavily laden carriages broke…

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Nusrand and Wife in Car Accident

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 2 October 1947 · page 2

Former Albury police sergeant, Mr H Heaney, of David st. north, and his wife were taken lo Albury Hospital last night by ambulance…

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Doctor Thinks Man Was Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 4 October 1947 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Friday: Body of a man found floating in Goulburn river at Seymour yesterday was in a condition consistent with…

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Jammed Between Logs and Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 7 October 1947 · page 5

BURNIE. Mon.: Ernest Bertram, aged 50, unmarried, was jammed between two logs and drowned in a swollen creek on the isolated…

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Injured Three Persons; Driver Sentenced

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 7 October 1947 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Mon.: “You must expiate your crime,” said Mr Justice Martin, in the Criminal Court today, to Russell Alfred Turner,…

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Eight Pilgrims Killed in Bus Accident

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 7 October 1947 · page 5

LONDON, Mon.: Eight persons were killed and 11 seriously injured when a bus carrying 20 pilgrims visiting the sanctuary of…

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Boy Injured by Bomb Explosion

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 8 October 1947 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Tues: Dale Egan, aged 9, of Tennyson St., St. Kilda, received severe eye injuries when a home-made bomb with which he was…

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War-time Collision with Cruiser Claim For £35,000

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 8 October 1947 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tues.: Delayed during the war for security reasons a claim against the Commonwealth Government for £35,000 came…

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Ideal Destroyed After Accident

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 8 October 1947 · page 8

MELBOURNE. Tues: While galloping at Caulfield this morning Ideal snapped his off foreleg and had to be destroyed…

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