Execution by Drowning
The revival this year, in France, of the guillotine, as a method of dispatching criminals convicted of capital offences, recalls the fact that execution by drowning was…
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Accidents, 1909
264 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 14
Drowning Fatality
LONDON, Thursday:—While crossing the Ohio at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, a steam launch capsized, and 20 out of 30 women aboard were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cycling Fatality. Sydney
Mrs. Gilchrist, aged 45 years, manageress of the Hotel Metropole, met her death in a tragic manner early this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rhondda Colliery Fatality. Evidence at the Inquest
At the Wallsend Courthouse yesterday Mr. C. Hibble, district coroner, held an inquest into the death of Ernest Edward Bedford, who died in the Wallsend…
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After hearing further evidence on April 1st at the inquest at the London Hospital into the death of the four labourers who were killed through the falling of a lift in a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accident at Burwood
George Williams, 20 years of age, employed at the screens at Burwood Colliery was seriously injured while following his employment yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accident Relief Fund. Deputation to the Minister
A meeting of representatives to the Accident Fund Conference was held at the Trades Hall on Saturday. Mr. W. Bower, president of the conference,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Spanish Fishermen Drowned
LONDON, Friday.—A storm in the Bay of Biscay surprised the Spanish fishing fleet, and 100 fishermen were drowned…
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At Dempsey Island yesterday Mr. C. nibble, the district coroner, held in inquest into the circumstances attending the death of a child named Norman Walter…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Maitland District "Newcastle Herald" Branch Office: High-street, West Maitland. Drowning Fatality
Moses Joseph Murphy, 25, was drowned in the Hunter River, at Morpeth, yesterday morning. Deceased resided with his mother and other Members of the family…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Accidents and Disasters
Owing to the employment of unskilled labour when the Government first Commenced to mine for coal in Newcastle, many fatal accidents occurred. The…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →An Electric Accident. Brisbane
An accident happened to William Mackay, a painter, at the Roma-street station this morning. He was engaged painting the roof, and was standing on a girder…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Nest of Death. Mountaineering Fatality. London
Blood-stained packages have been round on the Briga Mariltima, a high mountain peak near Turin, at a spot named "The Nest of Death."…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Excursion Steamer Wrecked. Nineteen Persons Drowned. London
An excursion steamer has been wrecked at Mandeville, in Louisiana, in the United States. The steamer crashed into a wooden…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Accident to the Maheno
The Union Company's fine steamer Maheno is laid up, owing to a mishap to her high-pressure turbine. The work of getting this turbine out of the vessel for…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Accident Insurance in Austria
In December, 1887, an Act of Parliament regulating the insurance of work-people against accidents was passed. It provides for all classes of workpeople,…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Maitland District "Newcastle Herald" Branch Office: High-street, West Maitland. Found Drowned
A young lad, named Seiffer, while fishing on the river bank at Walsh Park on Saturday morning, noticed an object floating down the stream. He touched it…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Submarine in Collision. Twenty Persons Drowned. London
Reuter's Agency reports [?]hat the Russian submarine boat Kambala came into collision with an Bronclad during ma[?] in the Black Sea…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cars in Collision Sydney
Two [?] cars collided early this evening in the matta-road, Leichhardt, as a [?] five people were infered two [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accident Relief Fund. Proposed Amendments. Deputation to the Minister. Sydney
A deputation of mining representative from the northern, southern, and western districts, accompanied by 3lesne. A. Edden, M. Charlton, A. Kelly, and J…
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