Dreadful Accident
THE following particulars of a horrible accident are given in the Wagga Advertiser:—On Friday afternoon, about 3 o'clock, a dreadful accident occurred near Coolaman…
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Accidents, 1883
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TELEGRAMS. Accidents and Offences
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Two prisoners, named Jones and Downes, found guilty of garrotting, have been sentenced to seven years' hard labour on the roads, and to…
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LONDON, June 6.—The train conveying the mail by the Orient liner Potosi, from Plymouth to London, met with an accident, and some passengers were seriously injured…
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SYDNEY, Friday. Two navvies named Keliaber and Wilson, quarrelled yesterday, at Narrandera, the former stabbed the latter with a knife. Wilson is still in a precarious…
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A VERY painful accident happened on Saturday night last. From what I can gather it appears that a trolly conducted by McFadden, a ganger, and Curren, one of…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The two garotters, Jones and Downs, received fifty lashes each at Darlinghurst, yesterday. Susan Bowls, aged 9, has committed…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—On Thursday morning, a grocer named William Holder, residing at the corner of Marian and Cornwallis streets, Redfern, was found by his wife…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—John Molloy, a carter, dropped dead to-day while standing in the bar of an hotel in Castlereagh-street…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Farmer and Co.'s drapery establishment, Pitt-street, had a narrow escape from destruction by the last night, through at escape of gas. The…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Eliza Cooper, aged fifteen years, pleaded guilty to a charge of arson, at the Yass Sessions. The "Indian Corn Doctor" who…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Commercial Bank note forger, arrested yesterday by Detective Willmott, has been remanded till Monday…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Small, a blacksmith at the Railway Works, Redfern, while working at the forge, was severely scalded. A blacksmith named Jackson, at Pickup's…
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A SHOCKING accident occurred in Ballarat on Saturday afternoon, resulting in the death of Mr. Chas. C. C. M'Leod, of Roseneath, Gippsland, the youngest…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Waldron, the bank note forger, has been remanded to Dubbo. A man, unknown, and about 30 years of age, has been found floating in the…
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ON Saturday evening a fatal and shocking tram accident took place in Pitt-street south, Sydney. The victim was an elderly man of some 50 years of age, named William Houlahan, who was employed…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The cage over the shaft of a claim at Sandhurst, 650 foot deep, broke, and two miners who were in it were smashed to atoms…
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LONDON, June 26.—A Panic took place at the Theatre Dirvio, Italy, and, in the rush to the doors, forty-seven persons were kiled, and a large number seriously injured…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Johnny Ah Ling, charged with fraudulent insolvency, has had the case adjourned till Monday. The insolvent is bound over in heavy bail…
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A TELEGRAPH to the Echo informs us that a shocking accident happened in the Unicorn mine, Eaglehawk, near Sandhurst, on Tuesday evening. The signal was given to haul the cage to the surface, when the…
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WE regret to have to record the awfully sudden death of Harry Channon, brother of our respected townsman, Mr. Thomas Channon, photographer, of Hunter-street which took place at Reedy Creek on Wednesday…
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