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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1919

233 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 12

Drowning Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 October 1919 · page 4

A drowning fatality occurred near South Head, Sydney, yesterday morning. Eric Merton, 18, of Randwick, Gregory Henningham, 18, of Burwood, and Victor…

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Motor Accident Taxi Man Acquitted

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 7 October 1919 · page 3

Arthur George Wheeler, a taxi driver, was charged at Maitland Court to-day with having negligently driven a motor car in Church-street, West…

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Sad Road Fatality. Accused Acquitted

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 October 1919 · page 7

Thomas Hezekiah Wilkes and Whitney Wilkes were arraigned upon an indictment that, on July 25, at Moorland, they did feloniously slay one Sigmund Frederick…

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Across America Fast Flying First Fatality of Race VANCOUVER

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 10 October 1919 · page 1

The leaders among the 66 aeroplanes crossing the United States (52 rom New York and 14 from San Fransisco) covered as many as 600 miles…

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Shunter's Death Woodville Accident Crushed Between Buffers

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 10 October 1919 · page 5

Alfred Henry playford. railway shunter, was crushed between a locomotive and a brakevan at Woodville junction on the night of October 3…

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Steamers in Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 October 1919 · page 7

It is reported from New York that the United Stares transport Antigone rammed the British steamer Gaelic Prince, in Now York harbour…

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Sydney Fatality Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 11 October 1919 · page 5

Phyllis Craig (5) was taken to the South Sydney Hospital last night suffering from injuries accidentally received from the discharge of a…

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Fourth Fatality American Air Race Crash in a Blizzard VANCOUVER

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 11 October 1919 · page 1

The fourth fatality in the Trans-American air race occurred when Lieutenant Wales died from injuries following on a crash. He lost his way…

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Tramline Tragedy Union-st. Fatality "Greatest Smash Ever"

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 13 October 1919 · page 4

With every bone broken and the brains protruding, the body of John Blane was picked up on the tram track in Hunter-street West on the…

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Shooting Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 October 1919 · page 5

Shortly before midnight on Friday, Roy Parker, an employee of Mr. J. Morris, licensee of the George Hotel, Newcastle, accidentally shot Edward William…

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Tramway Fatality. a Hawker's Death

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 October 1919 · page 6

An inquest was held by Mr. C. Hibble, the District Coroner, at the Newcastle Courthouse, yesterday, into the death of a man whose body was found on October…

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Hotel Shooting Case. Accidental Death

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 October 1919 · page 3

The death of Edward William Nicholson, who died in the Newcastle Hospital on Monday morning from a bullet wound, was the subject of an inquest by Mr. C…

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Maitland District. Greta Colliery Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 October 1919 · page 6

At the Greta Courthouse yesterday, Mr. G. Brown, the coroner, held an inquest concerning the death of Richard Holmes, a set-rider, who was fatally injured at…

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Drowned in Throsby Creek. an Octogenarian's Death

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 October 1919 · page 5

Mr. C. Hibble, the district coroner, held an inquest at the Newcastle Courthouse yesterday into the death of Frederick Alexander Bolin, who was found drowned…

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Harbor Collision Captains in Court Cardiff and Waraneen

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 17 October 1919 · page 1

John Thomas Garaham, master of the Waraneem, appeared at the Newcastle Court this morning in answer to a charge that, on August 19, being…

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Aeroplane Fatality

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 18 October 1919 · page 1

An Avro passenger carrying aeroplane came to grief about 30ft. from the ground at Camberley, the pilot, Mr. H. R. Hastings, being killed, and…

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District News. Greta. Colliery Fatality Inquest

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 October 1919 · page 8

The inquest concerning the death of Richard Holmes, a set-rider, at the New Greta Colliery, which occurred on October 9, from injuries received that day…

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Fatal Motor Car Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 October 1919 · page 8

William Currie, caretaker of Paul's Buildings, Watt-street, Newcastle, who lived at 73 Lindsay-street, Hamilton, was fatally injured through being knocked…

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Taxi Car Fatality. Little Girl Killed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 October 1919 · page 5

A little girls, Ellen Muriel Waterman, aged nine years, who lived with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Waterman, in Drunker-rand, Adamstown, was killed last…

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Throsby Creek Drowning. Verdict of Accidental Death

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 October 1919 · page 4

Mr. C. Hibble, the district coroner, held on inquest yesterday into the death of Percy Jones, aged nine years, who was drowned in Throsby Creek on Saturday afternoon…

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