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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1949

447 stories in Murray's papers · page 20 of 23

Honeymoon Couples May Be Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Monday 14 November 1949 · page 1

HOBART, Sunday : Two young honeymoon couples who went fishing in a 14ft. open boat in Oyster Bay on…

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Women Injured When Cars Collide

Border Morning Mail · Monday 14 November 1949 · page 11

When two motor cars collided at the intersection of Macauley and Smollett sts. early yesterday morning, women passengers in one of…

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Two Young Men Killed in Road Accidents

Border Morning Mail · Monday 14 November 1949 · page 7

GOSFORD. Sun.: Ronald Blair. 21. Cullen’s road. Kincumber. and Leslie John Barlow. 36. Station road. Point Clare, died in…

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Man, Marooned on Buoy, Believed Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 15 November 1949 · page 11

PABIS, Monday 5 A French[?]n, Marcel, Petit, who since Friday morning had been marooned on a [?]oy in Cherbourg…

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Migrant Drowned at Bonegilla

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 16 November 1949 · page 11

Wodonga Deputy Coroner (Mr) M. Buntz, .JP) found at Wodonga yesterday “that Mikola Wychopen was found drowned without marks…

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Railway Employe Injured

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 17 November 1949 · page 2

Mr C. F. Chisholm. a porter at Albury railway station, suffered a lacerated arm yesterday morning when goods he and another man…

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District News Tumbarumba Accident at Buckjumping Show

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 17 November 1949 · page 13

An accident which could easily have had more serious consequences happened during a visiting circus . and rodeo show at…

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Injured When Swept From Horse By Limb

The Pastoral Times · Friday 18 November 1949 · page 5

When he was swept from a bolting horse by an overhanging limb, Mr. Ray Fitzmaurice, of Deniliquin, sustained five…

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Horse Returns: Rider Believed Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 19 November 1949 · page 1

WANGARATTA, Fri.: Police are searching swampy country about five miles from Wangaratta for a missing farm…

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Trains Collide: 6 People Injured

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 19 November 1949 · page 12

SYDNEY, Friday.: Six people were injured and five others severely shocked when a goods train and an electric train…

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Figured in Fatal Accident

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 19 November 1949 · page 1

The damaged motor cycle on which George Stanley Weller, 22, single, of Townsend st., Albury, was killed, and his brother, Robert, was injured in an accident near Stephen Bros.’ cordial factory, High st., Wodonga, on…

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Albury Youth Critically Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 21 November 1949 · page 1

An Albury youth is in the District Hospital in a serious condition, believed to be suffering from a fractured skull…

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Car Damaged in Collision

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 22 November 1949 · page 2

Minor damage to a car occurred in collision in Dean st early yesterday afternoon between a lorry driven by Mr Roy Frederick…

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Items of News Injured Cyclise Critically [?]

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 23 November 1949 · page 2

Albury District Hospital [?] last night reported that the [?] year—old Albury motor cyclist, Milford Newman, who was…

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Woman Awarded £750: Cannery Accident

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 23 November 1949 · page 14

SYDNEY, Tues.: In the Causes Court today Mrs Lolo Catherine Firth, 30, was awarded £750 damages against the Leeton…

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Aged Woman’s Death From Drowning

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 24 November 1949 · page 3

Verdict of death from accidental drowning was returned by the deputy coroner (Mr A. S. Kendall) at an inquest at…

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Child Drowned

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 25 November 1949 · page 1

An 8-year-old boy, Robert Nettle, was drowned in the Murrumbidgee near Yanco last Sunday. The child's lather said that, before going away to…

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Shooting Fatality at Walla

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 25 November 1949 · page 2

A 17-year-old Walla youth, Kay Vernon Lieschke, died in Albury District Hospital at 7.45 on Saturday morning following his admission the…

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No One Hurt in Collision

Border Morning Mail · Friday 25 November 1949 · page 9

Two vehicles collided in Kiewa Street in front of blacklock’s garage last night. None of the occupants was hurt, and the cars…

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Items of News Migrant Motor Cyclist Injured

Border Morning Mail · Friday 25 November 1949 · page 2

Vice Harangozo, migrant, from Bonegilla, suffered lacerations to the left ankle last evening when the motor cycle he was riding…

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