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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1951

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Two Hurt in Car Collision

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 3 March 1951 · page 9

When his car overturned on Old Sydney rd last night, Leslie Norman Schaefer 24, Alexandra st, suffered a severe laceration to the…

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Spear Fisherman Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Monday 5 March 1951 · page 10

SYDNEY, Sun: Ambulance officers and police today hauled a man 100ft. up a cliff face in a Vain effort to save his life after…

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Nearly an Accident

Border Morning Mail · Monday 5 March 1951 · page 4

This is what happens when modem high-velocity powder is used in a gun not manufactured for the purpose. The shooter…

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Move to Reduce Level Crossing Accidents

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 6 March 1951 · page 3

CANBERRA, Monday: A nationwide survey of dangerous level crossings will be made with a view to reducing accidents, the Minister…

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Items of News Five Injured When Car Overtuurns

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 7 March 1951 · page 2

When their car overturned on the Tarcutta bridge in the early hours of yesterday morning, five people were injured. The drover…

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New Australians in Accident

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 10 March 1951 · page 2

Two New Australians were involved in accidents yesterday. The first occurred about 4.45 p.m. when Mrs Isobella Jean Turner,…

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Youth drowned in surf

Border Morning Mail · Monday 12 March 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun.: A youth was drowned in the surf at Cronulla this afternoon while a life saver was rescuing his girl friend a…

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Drowned in a lagoon

Border Morning Mail · Monday 12 March 1951 · page 1

Police yesterday afternoon [?]vered the body of a young [?] who drowned in a lagoon [?] Mungabareena reserve…

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“Buffs” buffeted in jetty collapse: several are almost drowned

Border Morning Mail · Monday 12 March 1951 · page 3

BRISBANE, Sun.: Thirty people had a narrow escape from drowning today, when the end of Black’s Jetty at Cleveland, 24 miles from Brisbane, collapsed under them and threw them…

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Items of News Railway Worker Injured

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 13 March 1951 · page 2

John Sutcliff of Waugh rd., Albury, yesterday suffered probable fractured ribs whilst working at the railway station. It is thought…

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Woman botanist believed drowned

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 14 March 1951 · page 4

NEWCASTLE, Tues.: Scores of fishing boats today searched Pearl Beach, Woy Woy, in an unsuccessful attempt to locate…

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Drowning Fatality

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 15 March 1951 · page 1

The death occurred by drowning on Wednesday afternoon of last week of a man named William Jones (66), the fatality occurring…

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Student drowned in “ducking rag”

Border Morning Mail · Friday 16 March 1951 · page 10

ADELAIDE, Thurs.: Police are investigating the drowning of a university student last night after a “ducking…

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Children’s deaths due to accidents, father declares

Border Morning Mail · Friday 16 March 1951 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Thurs.: A 32-year-old chef charged with the murder of his baby daughter on January 2 last at Buxton admitted in the Criminal Court today that he intended a secret burial for this child, and had also dumped the body of a baby son in a dried swamp at Red Cliffs at…

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Motor cyclist fatally injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 19 March 1951 · page 11

MELBOURNE, Sun.: Ernest Cressfield, of Moorhouse st., West: Richmond, was fatally injured last night when his motor cycle…

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Migrant accidentally shot

Border Morning Mail · Monday 19 March 1951 · page 12

MELBOURNE. Sun.: Zenel Hysn. 40. New Australian laborer of Shepparton was admitted to the Mooropna Base Hospital with…

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Man charged following rood accident

Border Morning Mail · Monday 19 March 1951 · page 12

MELBOURNE. Sun.: A man was charged with drunken driving following an accident in which an elderly woman was injured at Mt…

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South Albury Collision

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 24 March 1951 · page 2

A car driven by Leonard Joseph Hicks, David st, Wodonga, and a truck driven by Miroslav Student, Wewak st, Worth Albury, came…

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Five injured in four accidents

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 24 March 1951 · page 4

Five people were injured in four accidents in Wodonga and Albury on Thursday. Walter Bernard Salan, Mt…

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Man Drowned, Toddler Killed

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 24 March 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Fri.: A fisherman was drowned at Wattamolla, and a two-year-old girl was fatally injured in a road accident in…

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