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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1922

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Bathing After Meals Good Swimmer Drowned TOOWOOMEA

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 20 January 1922 · page 7

A drowning accident occurred at Warwick baths, as a result of which Martin Carmody, aged 15, lost his life. Carmody dived from the springboard…

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Ocean Baths Tragedy Lad Drowned Water Over His Head

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 23 January 1922 · page 5

Alfred Britton, a lad of about 16 years, was drowned in the Newcastle ocean baths this afternoon. He went in bathing with a…

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Bullet in Head Porter Injured Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 23 January 1922 · page 5

Thomas Morris, aged 50, hall porter at Tattersall's Club, Pitt-street, was found on the floor of the club today with a bullet would in his head…

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Drowned in Ocean Baths. Railway Clerk's Death

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 January 1922 · page 4

Alfred Hilton Britton, aged 16 years, who lived with his parents in Stur[?]-street, Now Lambton and was employed as a junior clerk in the office of the…

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Fatal Jolting Motor Car Accident Cessnock Fatality Thrown Against Hood

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 25 January 1922 · page 4

A serious motor accident occurred on Monday on the Branxton-Cessnock road. Messrs. Charles Ryan…

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MR. C. Croese's Death Cream Separator Accident

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 25 January 1922 · page 8

While using a cream separator at his dairy farm at Ash Island, on December 18, Cornelius Creese, aged 38, sustained a compound fracture of the…

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Street Accident Lad Seriously Hurt Thrown on Concrete

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 25 January 1922 · page 5

Noel Baker (17). an apprentice to Mr. Jewel. horse trainer. was seriously injured in a peculiar fashion this morning. He was sitting in a sulky outside…

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Insane Mother Three Children Drowned LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 26 January 1922 · page 1

An insane mother at Kilmarnock drowned her three children, and placed her head in a gas-cooker. She was found dead…

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Fatal Crash Lorry and Sulky Collide Family's Plight Young Wallsend Accident

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 26 January 1922 · page 5

A smash between a motor lorry and a sulky at Young Wallsend this morning resulted in the death shortly afterwards of Stanley…

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Young Wallsend Fatality. Motor and Sulky Collision Family's Sad Holiday

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 January 1922 · page 5

A tragic collision took place yesterday morning at Young Wallsend between a motor lorry and a sulky, and as a result Mr. Stanley M'Pherson, a resident of…

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Launch Fatality Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 January 1922 · page 6

Mr. Jamieson, the city coroner, held an inquest to-day into the death of Alfred Henry Hasemer (42), a company director of Mosman, who was drowned…

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Motor Smash. Three Men Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 January 1922 · page 5

A serious motor smash occurred at Tighe's Hill last night, at about eleven o'clock, and as a result three man were injured. Their names are: Mathew Davis,…

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Jesmond Tram Smash. Nine Passengers Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 31 January 1922 · page 5

An accident happened at Jesmond yesterday afternoon, shortly after five o'clock, to the train that left Parnell-place, Newcastle, at half-past four o'clock,…

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Over Embankment Avoiding Collision Motor-car Smash MURWILLUMBAH

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 31 January 1922 · page 5

A remarkable motor accident occurred near Murwillumbah on Friday night, when a car, going over an embankment, fell 30 feet. The car…

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Struck by Tram Dealer Injured

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 1 February 1922 · page 1

Matthew Baxter, aged 30, a dealer living in Albert-street, Wickham, was driving a horse and cart through the railway gates at the intersection of…

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Between the Buffers Fatality at Narrabri NARRABRI

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 1 February 1922 · page 5

A railway cleaner and acting fireman, Theodore John McCarthy, aged 25, was killed instantaneously at West Narrabri yards while shunting an…

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Road Racing Week-end Event Cyclist Injured

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 1 February 1922 · page 3

Newcastle Bicycle Club, at its meeting last night, decided to conduct a six-mile road race over the Glebe course on Saturday afternoon,…

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Soorak Injured Autumn Withdrawal Mishap at Richmond SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 1 February 1922 · page 5

The crack two-year-old colt, Soorak, winner of the December stakes, injured one of this hind legs while running in the paddocks at Richmond a few…

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Fatality in Auckland. Auckland

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 February 1922 · page 5

The scaffolding in the lift-well in Endean's Buildings, a five-story block on the water-front, collapsed this afternoon. Four painters, William Moore, George…

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Drowned While Painting Apprentice's Death

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 2 February 1922 · page 5

One of the Stockton Mission to Seamen workers has received a letter stating that Presto Trewawes, an apprentice on the s.s. Trefusis, was…

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