Latest Up to Publication. Sydney, Monday, 4.3 P.m. Terrible Fatality
Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 11 May 1897 · page 3
Last evening Mrs. Roberts, her three children, and a man named Charles Cooper, were burnt to death at Lucknow, near Orange, through Roberts' house catching fire. Cooper…
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Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 11 May 1897 · page 2
ON Friday Mr. L. M. C. Seton, J.P., held an enquiry at Wellingrove Station touching the death of Thomas Parker, who had accidentally, shot himself the previous day when out marsupial shooting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Team Fatality. Sydney, Thursday Night
The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 14 May 1897 · page 5
A. TRAM conductor named Matthew Williams was killed this morning by fallings between the cars of his tram. Williams was one of the oldest and most…
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Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 14 May 1897 · page 3
Matthew Williams, one of the oldest tramway guards in the service, was killed this morning by felling between the trams…
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The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 18 May 1897 · page 2
WHEN a person, apparently drowned, is taken out of the water, his lunge have water in them and his throat is stopped with water and mucus. Turn him on his face,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Clergyman Drowned
The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 18 May 1897 · page 2
A MYSTERIOUS case involving the death of a clergyman came under the notice of the police on Wednesday morning, when it was reported a man named Charles Roberts had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cycling Fatality. Melbourne
The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 18 May 1897 · page 5
WHILE engaged in a road race near Melbourne, yesterday, a cyclist named Brenton Sheppard was killed by a fall, and another competitor named Timothy Crotty…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shocking Railway Accident. [By Cable.] London
The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 18 May 1897 · page 5
THROUGH a train becoming derailed at Rockenhof, in Russia, a hundred soldiers, were killed and sixty injured…
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Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 18 May 1897 · page 3
While engaged in a road race near Melbourne yesterday a cyclist named Brenton Sheppard was killed by a fall, and another competitor, named Timothy Crotty, seriously…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Burning Fatality
The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 19 May 1897 · page 2
A child named Riley died at Bicgara yesterday from the effects of burns, caused by her dress igniting whilst playing near a fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sulky Accident. Sydney, Thursday Night
The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 21 May 1897 · page 5
EX-ALDERMAN PATRICK BROWN, a native, and an old resident of Moruya, was killed near Bergala last night by being thrown out of a sulky into a causeway thirty feet…
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The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 21 May 1897 · page 5
A SINGULAR accident, resulting in the instantaneous death of a public servant, occurred at the Lands Office to-day. Frederick Wiley, who resided at…
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Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 21 May 1897 · page 3
Frederick Wiley, aged 35, a clerk in the deeds branch of the Lands Office, was killed to-day by overbalancing himself over the stairs in the Lands Office. Deceased was at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Fatality. Sydney, Monday Afternoon
The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 25 May 1897 · page 5
A RAILWAY employee, named James Williams, was ran over and killed by the Brisbane mail train, at Hexham, on Saturday…
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Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 25 May 1897 · page 3
A railway employee, named James Williams, was run over and killed by the Brisbane mail at Hexham on Saturday…
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Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 28 May 1897 · page 1
Our forefathers had a playful plan of despatching both guilty and innocent by pouring melted lead down their throats. It would, however, scarcely he believed that…
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The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 29 May 1897 · page 2
A fatal accident occurred on Saturday night near Ironbark Creek to James Henry Rees Williams employed as a night watchman during…
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Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 1 June 1897 · page 2
The eldest son of Dr. Bateman and Wm. Shepherd were both drowned on Saturday while boating at Lake Illawarra…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boat Fatality. London
Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 1 June 1897 · page 2
Six Petty officers, belonging to the H.M.S. Collingwood, have been drowned, in Ireland owing to the capsizing of a boat…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boating Fatality. Sydney, Monday Afternoon
The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 1 June 1897 · page 5
THE eldest sons of Dr. Bateman and Mr. William Shepherd were both drowned on Saturday whilst boating at Lake Illawarra…
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