Baths Fatality Little Boy Drowned. GRAFTON
A sad drowning fatality occurred here at 7 a.m., Ross Hanigan, the seven-year-old son of Mr. E. Hanigan, went with his father to the…
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Accidents, 1927
1,005 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 51
Finger Severed Accident to S. A. Premier ADELAIDE
The Premier (Mr. Hill) was on his way to preside at a meeting of the general committee, which has arrangements in hand for the reception…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Public Menace" Drunken Driver's Collision License Cancelled
"This sort of offender is a menace to public safety," remarked Mr. Perry. 6.51., at Newcastle Court to-day. In a case in which Lancelot Milton Cox…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Man Injured Car and Sulky Collide
When his sulky and a car collided at the intersection of Hunter and Auckland streets last night, George Woods, of Douglas-street, Stockton,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Back to Gaol Escaping Convict Injured LONDON, Tunday
The prisoner, Dawson, who escaped from goal a few days ago, was recaptured in the casual ward of Wands worth Workhouse…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Race to Death Maroubra Fatality R. G. Garlick Killed. Sydney
Travelling around the track at Maroubra Speedway last night at more than 90 miles an hour, a motor car driven by R. G. (Phil) Garlick, aged 44, one of the most…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Train Derailed Accident Near Parkes. Sydney
Disaster almost overtook the Forbes mail train while it was travelling between Parkes and Tichborne this morning, when eight trucks and two…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hit by Motor Cycle Accidental Death Verdict
An Inquest was held this afternoon by Mr. C. Hibble into the cause of the death of Alfred Proud, which occurred in the Newcastle Hospital on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fell Through Window Tailor's Employee Injured
Vincent Monahon, 33, married, living at the "Star" Hotel, Hunter-street, Newcastle, employed as a tailor by Swift and Co., Hunter-street, had the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fall of Coal Miner's Legs Injured
Nicoll Kirkwood, 31, miner, at Pelaw Main colliery, suffered injuries to both legs while at work to-day. A fall of coal in the pillars, was the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Narrow Escapes Big Annandale Fire Two Injured Sydney
Exciting scenes and narrow escape marked a big fire which broke out at 1.30 a.m. to-day in Parramatta-road, Annandale…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Soho Terror" Much-convicted Crook Gaol Again Injured Many Police
A man, whose previous convictions took a quarter of an hour to read out, has been sentenced once more in London…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Killed by Motor Car Christmas Day Accident
An inquest was held by Mr. C. Hibble, the District Coroner, at Newcastle Courthouse, yesterday, concerning the death of Mary Reynolds, aged five years and three…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Struck on Head Accident at Boolaroo
Edward Winstanley, 43, shiftman, of Boolaroo, yesterday walked behind a lorry on which was a derrick for erecting electric light boles. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Drowned in Murray Muswellbrook Man's Death ALBURY
Fate used a wire rope to piny a fatal trick on John Morris, 34, a native of Muswellbrook. He fought on the Peninsular and went right through…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Air Fatality Sequel Fines of £150 Imposed
There was a sequel at Bedford recently to the balloon accident at Kempston on August 3, when five people were killed. Messrs. C. G. Spencer and Sons, Ltd.,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Miners' Accident Relief Fund. Sydney
Mr. George Booth, M.P., has been in touch with Mr. Baddeley, the Minister for Mines, respecting an increase to the M.A.R. fund for old men in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Taxi Skids Accident at Wyong WYONG
A Newcastle taxi, returning to that city, skidded at the turn at the show-grounds from Warner-avenue into the Newcastle-road, Wyong…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Held Up Traffic Fatal Tube Accident LONDON
Holborn station, on the Piccadilly tube, was closed, arid traffic suspended for an hour and a half while breakdown gangs using lifting jacks,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Thrown Through Glass Collision at Sandgate Cyclist Injured
Thrown through the windscreen in a collision between a motor car and his motor cycle in Maitland-road, Sandgate, [?]our Ironbark ridge,…
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