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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1952

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Boxer Injured

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 6 November 1952 · page 19

LONDON, Wed.: The former French fly weight boxing champion, Honori Pratesi, was admitted to London Hospital last night in a…

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Painful Accident

The Pastoral Times · Friday 7 November 1952 · page 1

John Boyce, a trainee winch operator, was injured at the Lawson Syphon works on Monday afternoon…

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Motor cyclist fatally injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 10 November 1952 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Sun.: Evan Cole grave, 21, of Clapham road, Oakleigh, received fatal injuries early yesterday when the…

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Items of News Boy Accidentally Shot

Border Morning Mail · Monday 10 November 1952 · page 2

A 14½ boy who was spending the weekend in the Rutherglen district , had portion of the muscle of his upper left…

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Three Cars in Unusual Accident

Border Morning Mail · Monday 10 November 1952 · page 2

Three cars, only one of which was being driven, were involved in an unusual accident in Kiewa street on Saturday night…

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Will not forget first day in Wodonga Dragged drowning man from creek

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 13 November 1952 · page 2

His first day in Wodonga .will not be forgotten by Mr. George David O'Reilly who. while taking a stroll and looking over his…

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Lad Drowned in River

Border Morning Mail · Monday 17 November 1952 · page 3

HOBART, Sun.: Three-youths were rescued, but another is feared drowned after a small yacht overturned in the River…

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Man riding its stolen car fatally injured

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 18 November 1952 · page 7

PERTH, Mon.: One of two men who were found lying injured near a stolen car, which crashed six miles east of Coolgardie early…

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“Remembered Nothing of Accident”

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 18 November 1952 · page 4

Two men who gave evidence of an accident in Mate st. on June 17 said they had no recollection of what had happened…

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Human failure caused 80 p.c. of accidents

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 20 November 1952 · page 6

SYDNEY, Wed.: Human failure was the cause of over 80 per cent of the record 22.662 accidents in NSW during the year ended June…

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News From Corowa Severe Injuries in Car Accident

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 20 November 1952 · page 5

Mr. R. K. Anderson came from Mooroopna to manage his brother’s grocery business, after Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Anderson were…

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Injured Workers’ Claims

Border Morning Mail · Friday 21 November 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thurs.: The NSW Trades and Labor Council decided tonight to draw the attention of the Attorney-General to…

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Coroner's Inquest Verdict of Accidental Death

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 21 November 1952 · page 3

On Tuesday Mr. J. P. Leahy, J.P., Corowa District Coroner, held an inquiry into the death of Edgar Raymond…

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Man Says Street Killing Was an Accident Verdict is expected sometime today

Border Morning Mail · Friday 21 November 1952 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Thurs. : A 25-year-old builders’ laborer, charged with murder, told the Criminal Court today he accidentally shot the victim when he stepped back and his elbow struck a past discharging an automatic…

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Baby Drowned in Pond

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 22 November 1952 · page 3

BENDIGO, Fri.: A seventeen months-old girl was drowned this morning when she fell into a small duck pond near her home…

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Wodonga Creek drowning

Border Morning Mail · Monday 24 November 1952 · page 2

A man who jumped into the Wodonga Creek and was pulled out by a passing pedestrian died in Albury District Hospital from…

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Youth, boy drowned

Border Morning Mail · Monday 24 November 1952 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Sun.: A youth and a boy were drowned in a launch disaster at Apollo Bay this afternoon…

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Two men are drowned

Border Morning Mail · Monday 24 November 1952 · page 3

LAUNCESTON, Sun.: Two Devonport men who ventured into a strong westerly swell in a flimsy flat-bottom boat to go…

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Smash in Holbrook street : Saturday morning pile-up Three vehicles damaged, but drivers not injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 24 November 1952 · page 12

Three motor vehicles were extensively damaged when a semi-trailer crashed into a car and a break-down wagon in Albury street, Holbrook, about 9.30 a.m. on Saturday…

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Ship’s Captain Presumed Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 25 November 1952 · page 4

BRISBANE, Mon.: The master of the British freighter Mapleback disappeared and is presumed browned on the voyage from New…

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