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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1949

447 stories in Murray's papers · page 13 of 23

Items of News Elderly Man Injured

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 29 June 1949 · page 2

When the horse he was driving became upset and the cart was overturned, a 66 year old man suffered a possible fracture of the…

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Cyclist Injured

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 5 July 1949 · page 2

A cyclist suffered severe facial lacerations when he was struck by a car on Tallangatta rd on Saturday. Driver of the car was…

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Accidental Fall Coroner Finds at Inquest

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 5 July 1949 · page 4

The Coroner, Mr. T. F. Cook J.P. this morning found that the death of William Henry Leonard, ard at the Bushy Bend on…

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Cannery Worker Fatally Injured

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 6 July 1949 · page 15

MELBOURNE, Tuesday : Robert Thomson, 53, cannery worker, was fatally burned when fire broke out in a weatherboard…

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Father of 13 Children Fatally Injured

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 6 July 1949 · page 14

ADELAIDE, Tues: William Christian Franks, 58, wharflaborer, of Lipson st. Port Adelaide, the father of 13 children, died from injuries…

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Items of News Injured When Girder Fell

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 7 July 1949 · page 2

Shortly after 11 o’clock yesterday morning Albury ambulance received a call to Kiewa butter factory to render first aid to two…

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Two Elderly Fishermen Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Friday 8 July 1949 · page 16

PERTH, Thurs.: Two elderly men fishing at Dago Reef, near Safety Bay, who refused to heed warnings about the danger of the…

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Nationalisation of Mines Unlikely Albury Rugby Players Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 11 July 1949 · page 3

The Albury [?] was twice called to the Albury [?] ground yesterday to [?] to injured players…

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Local Men Injured

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 12 July 1949 · page 5

John Hebden Leetham, aged 20 years, was admitted to the Geelong Hospital with a cracked shin bone and his…

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Motoring Accident

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 1

While motoring to Narandera on Thursday last a car driven by Mrs. Murray, of Melbourne (nee Miss Joyce Carse, formerly of Moonbria)…

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Many Road Accidents in City

Border Morning Mail · Monday 18 July 1949 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Sun.: Road accidents for the week-end were highest since the metropolitan transport ban at week-ends came…

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Accident Fund Formed at Wodonga

Border Morning Mail · Monday 18 July 1949 · page 11

[?] footballers, supporters and business [?] a meeting at Wodonga yesterday, when it was decided to start [?]…

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Two Killed in Bus Accident Wodonga Footballers Injured

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 19 July 1949 · page 1

A serious accident occurred on the Hume Highway about 3 milles from Chiltern last Saturday evening when Myion's passenger bus of…

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Pinned Beneath Truck; Youth Badly Injured

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 19 July 1949 · page 1

Pinned beneath the motor lorry with which his motor cycle collided at Lavington late yesterday afternoon, a…

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Unable to Say If Gun Discharged Accidentally Coroner’s Finding at Inquest Today

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 19 July 1949 · page 1

AT the inquest held this morning into the cause of the death of Norman Henry Barkmeyer, Mr. J. L. M. Cronin coroner, found that Barkmeyer died on July 8 from the effects of a gunshot wound in the head inflicted by himself,…

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Motoring Accident

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 19 July 1949 · page 6

While motoring to Narrandera on Thursday last, a car driven by Mrs. Murray, of Melbourne (nee Miss Joyce Carie, formerly…

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Woman Cyclist Injured

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 20 July 1949 · page 14

When the cycle she was riding collided with a motor cycle, Mrs Doris Petersen, 30, of Huon st,, Wodonga, suffered abrasions to the…

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Wodonga Appoints Accident Fund Trustees

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 21 July 1949 · page 16

The Wodonga Football Club has appointed the following trustees to attend to and administer money from the Accident Benefit Fund:…

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Farm Hand Drowned in Flood

Border Morning Mail · Friday 22 July 1949 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Thursday: The body of Peter Murphy, 20, a dairy farm hand, who went out late yesterday to rescue horses…

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U.s. Soldier Drowned Trying to Save Jap. Children

Border Morning Mail · Friday 22 July 1949 · page 11

TOKIO, Thurs.: A 20-year-old American private was drowned while trying to rescue three Japanese children off a beach near…

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