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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1925

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Promt Response Helping Injured Jockey. ROCKHAMPTON

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 27 March 1925 · page 7

While riding Duotier in the Ladies Bracclet at the Bogantungan races, William Roberts ran into a post, and fractured his leg below the knee. He…

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Goodsyard Fatality. Evidence at the Inquest

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 March 1925 · page 3

Sitting at the Newcastle Courthouse yesterday, Mr. C. Hibble, the District Coroner, inquired into the death of Joseph Jones, aged 50 years, which o[?]…

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Jockey Injured Training Track Mishap SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 28 March 1925 · page 6

A. R. Cooper, the crack Victorian jockey, sustained a compound fracture of the left thigh at the Randwick racecourse this morning…

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Collision at Sea Bendigo and Collier No Casualties Capetown, Friday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 28 March 1925 · page 1

AT midnight a steam trawler crashed into the P. and O. branch liner Bendigo, off Cape Aghulhas, the southernmost point of…

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Cessnock Accidents

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 28 March 1925 · page 2

John Dykes met with a painful accident at Aberdare Central colliery when his finger became jammed in the skips. The finger had to be…

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Tram Derailed Tight's Hill Accident

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 28 March 1925 · page 5

A Port Waratah tram was derailed at Elizabeth-street, Tighe's Hill about one o'clock to-day, blocking the line. The next tram bound for Port…

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Two Men Drowned Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 March 1925 · page 5

A wireless message has been received stating that while a boat from the Government steamer Lady Loch was taking stores to the lighthouse at Cape Borda the boat…

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The Sun Stop-press Passipern Accident

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 30 March 1925 · page 6

[?] Mannly, of Hamilton, Creve a pick through his foot at Fussifern quarry, and received a lacerated wound…

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Boy Injured Wheels Over Face

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 31 March 1925 · page 8

A 10-year-old lad. John Robinson, fell from a dealer's cart at Cessnock and one of tho wheels passed over his face, breaking both of, his Jaw…

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Crushed Foot Honeysuckle Accident

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 31 March 1925 · page 5

H. Roach, a steel worker's assistant at the Honeysuckle Work Shops, treated at Newcastle Hospital this morning for a fracture to his right…

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Abernethy Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 April 1925 · page 8

An inquest concerning the death of Ellen Lefevre at Abernethy on March 21 was held at the Cessnock Court-house yesterday. The evidence showed that on…

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Cutting the Corner Collision in the Street Dodging a Tram

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 1 April 1925 · page 2

Herbert Roy Whitehead, charged on the information of the police, before Mr. Shropshire. S.M., at Newcastle Police Court to-day, with not having…

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Cricket Accident

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 1 April 1925 · page 5

Arthur Rose, aged 33, a married man living in Mooichu-street, Mayfield, and employed as a carter by W. E. Bramble and Sons, met with a…

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Drowned Near Mayfield

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 April 1925 · page 4

Alfred George Arnold, aged 34 years, a builder, living at 57 Braye-stret. Mayfield, was drowned in the Hunter River, near Dean's Pottery at Mayfield,…

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63 DROWNED German Calamity Pontoon Collapses London

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 2 April 1925 · page 1

SIXTY-THREE soldiers were drowned in the River Weser, near Dotmold, owing to the collapse of a pontoon bridge…

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Struck by Skip Pelaw Main Accident Compensation Claim

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 2 April 1925 · page 6

A' claim for £500 compensation for the death of her husband, who died on November 4, as a result of in juries received in the Polaw Main…

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Accidental Death Touched Live Wire Greta Tragedy

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 2 April 1925 · page 3

Tho Cessnock district coroeor. Mr. George Brown, conducted an inquest at Grota this morning into the death of Norman Ekin, aged three years and…

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Fell From Tram Accident at Waratah

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 3 April 1925 · page 5

Pattle Smith, six years of age, who lives with her parents at 29 Sunderland-street, Mayfield, fell from a moving tram at Bridge-street, Waratah,…

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Motor Lorry Fatality Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 April 1925 · page 4

A man, whose name is believed to be Bernard Gomersell, 43, who lived at Redfern, was killed by a motor lorry in Oxford-street, Darlinghurst, this…

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Beside the Track Man Found Injured

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 4 April 1925 · page 6

A serious Occident occurred in the West Maitland railway yards about nine o'clock last night, the victim being a man believed to be William…

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