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Murray · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1908

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Exhumation of a Body. Suspicious Death of Alexander Brown. Supposed Arsenical Poisoning Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 15 May 1908 · page 3

Some days ago a man named Alexander Brown died under circumstances which, although unusual, did not horm a picious, and his body was in the…

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Death of a Pastoralist. MR W. H. WATT

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 16 May 1908 · page 4

Messrs Gilchrist, Watt and Sanderson, of Sydney, have received cable information of the death of Mr William Holden Watt, of Howlong Station, in…

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Sudden Death of an Old Blue Jacket. Fell Dead in the Street

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 16 May 1908 · page 2

The death of Samuel Perkins, an old age pensioner, [?] suddenly in Albury yesterday afternoon, The [?] had been complaining of ill-health for the…

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Death of Alexander Brown Married Women Charged. Viscera to Be Analysed. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 16 May 1908 · page 5

A married woman named June Bai[?] charged on suspicion with having caused the death of Alexander Brown at Sydney on May 25, was brought…

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Death of Father Carroll. Formerly of Albury and Germanton

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 18 May 1908 · page 3

Father Carroll, who thirty years age was well known in this district, died on Saturday at Crookwell. At the 8 and 11 o'clock Masses yesterday at St. Patrick's…

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The Death of Samuel Perkins. Magisterial Inquiry. Death Due to Natural Causes

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 18 May 1908 · page 3

A magisterial inquiry was opened on Saturday by the Corener (Mr. Henry G. Shaw, noting P.M.) into the circumstances anrrounding the death of Samuel Perkins,…

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Death of a Bandsman

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 19 May 1908 · page 2

A sad death occurred at the Wangaratta Hospital on Thursday, night, the victim being Martin Cabassi, a young man aged 31 years, who…

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Obituary. a Noted Australian Pigeon Shot. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 20 May 1908 · page 5

The death has occurred at Monte Carlo, front tuberculosis, of Mr. Hector Fraser, formerly of Melbourne, a noted young pigeon shot…

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A Great Australian. Funeral of the Late Mr. Kingston

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 May 1908 · page 29

An. Adelaide correspondent writes:-Rain poured down as Mr. Kingston's funeral procession passed through the Adelaide streets to West-terrace Cemetery, where his…

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Obituary

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 22 May 1908 · page 5

General was the regret expressed on all sides here on Saturday last when the wire was received conveying the sad news of the death of Mr…

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Death of a Football Coach Mr. Baskerville of the All Blacks

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 22 May 1908 · page 3

Great sorrow was expressed in foot-ball and sporting circles this morning when the news arrived of the death in Brisbane last night of Mr…

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Death of a Jockey

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 23 May 1908 · page 5

The jockey, Joseph Williamson, who was seriously injured at the meeting of the Grenfell Racing Club on Tuesday, died this morning from his injuries…

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Death of Mr John Hetherington

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 23 May 1908 · page 2

A very old colonist and much esteemed resident of Deniliquin in the person of Mr John Hetherington, inspector of permanent way for the D. and M. Railway Company,…

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Death of Alexander Brown Alleged Arsenical Poisoning. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 23 May 1908 · page 5

The charge against the married woman named Baikee, who had been detained on suspicion of causing the death of Alex. Brown, was to-day…

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Strange Death of Alexander Brown

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 25 May 1908 · page 3

The inquest concerning the death of Alexander Brown, whose body was ex[?]med because suspicion attached to the fact that his jewellery was…

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Death of Mr James Hayes M.l.c. a Colonist of Seventy Years

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 25 May 1908 · page 2

Mr. James Hayes, M.L.C. father of Messrs. Hayes Bros., of Albury, died at 11.30 a.m. yesterday, In Sydney The deceased, who was about 80 years…

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Death of Colonial Waddell

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 26 May 1908 · page 2

Colonel Waddell, commandant of the State military forces died suddenly at the Athena[?] Club yesterday afternoon. Colonel Waddell, who was 63…

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OBITUARY. M. Francois Coppee. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 26 May 1908 · page 2

The death is announced of M. Francis Coppee, the distinguished Franch pool and [?]teratour, in his 66th year…

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New South Wales. Sydney, Monday. the Death of Alexander Brown

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 26 May 1908 · page 2

The in[?] was opened to-day on the body of Alexander Brown, which was exhumed owing to suspicious having ariven that death had been…

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Suspicious Death of a Young Woman

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 27 May 1908 · page 5

The inquest into the cireumstance surrounding the death of a young woman named Mary'Kenna, was resumed at Warrnambool this morning…

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