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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1929

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Little Boy Drowned. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 January 1929 · page 6

While bathing in Cook's River this afternoon, Walter Banks, aged line, of Earlwood, was drowned. The body was recovered some hours later…

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Seaplane's Fatal Dive Four Persons Drowned Nice

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 January 1929 · page 5

A French naval all-metal seaplane, while undergoing trials, piloted by Lieutenant Campordon, with four officer passengers, when four miles from the coast, suddenly…

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Bolting Lorry Woman Fatally Injured Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 January 1929 · page 4

Suddenly starting at the top of a steep incline, an unattended motor lorry laced down Hunter-street, City, today at the busiest hour of the day. Before coming…

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Serious Charge Little Girl Injured SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 10 January 1929 · page 8

A baby girl of four years. It is alleged, was the victim of a serious offence by a half-caste aborigine in the back yard of premises in Kensington…

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Crushed by Beam S.s. Burwah Accident Wharf Worker's Death

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 January 1929 · page 3

Crushed by a falling beam in the hold of the steamer Burwah, on December 11, Kenneth John Dines (31), a licensed transport worker whose address was 17…

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To-day's Accidents

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 10 January 1929 · page 7

bitten by Dog.—Austin Striker, 13 living at Cardiff, suffered a severe lacerated wound on his left thigh when he was bitten by a dog at…

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Another Drowning Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 6

The list of deaths by drowning was added to yesterday afternoon, when Roy Young, aged 7, of Tempe, lost his life while bathing in Wolli Creek, near his…

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Girl Hit Went to Help Brother "ACCIDENTAL" Fight Outside Hotel

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 6

Gallic into the middle of a fight outside the Orient Hotel, Cook's hill, on the night of January 4, Dorothy Johnson, daughter of the…

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To-day's Accidents

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 5

Quarry Worker Injured.—D. N. Bruce, 25, of Martin's Creek, was working in the municipal metal quarries to-day, when he injured his ankle…

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Head-on Collision SINGLETON

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 12 January 1929 · page 6

Dr. J. Kavanagh, parish priest, and Rev. T. Lincham, assistant priest, at Singleton, together with a visiting priest from New Zealand, had a…

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Two Men Injured. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 January 1929 · page 5

Two men, Charles Larkin, of Marrickville, and Henry Starr, of Kogarah, were injured in a motor accident on Princes' Highway, Rockdale, this evening…

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Slashed by a Razor Two Men Injured Brown-street Disturbance

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 January 1929 · page 6

With blood streaming from their wounds, alleged to have been caused by razors during a disturbance in a house in Brown-street, City, last night, two…

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Colliery Accidents

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 January 1929 · page 6

Leslie Conquest, a miner, living at Kearsley, was admitted to the Cessnock District Hospital yesterday with a fractured right leg, received while working in…

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Child Scalded Hamilton Accident

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 12 January 1929 · page 2

John Labey, aged six. living at 110 Tudor-street, Hamilton, suffered severe scalds to the lower purl of his body and legs when he spilled a kettle…

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Skull Fractured Struck By Steel Sling Ship. Accident

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 12 January 1929 · page 3

James Murray, 50, wharf laborer,90 Roger-street. Carrington, was truck on the head by a steel sling while working in a ship's hold this…

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To-day's Accidents

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 12 January 1929 · page 5

Wound on Hand.—Miss Dorothy Harper. 19. living at 27 Corlte-street, Cook's Hill, a housemaid employed at the Clarendon Hotel, Cook's Hill. was…

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DROWNED 'Terrace Fatality Couldn't Swim

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 14 January 1929 · page 7

James 'McAleese was drowned in the Hunter River at Raymond Terrace yesterday afternoon. McAleese, who was learning to swim…

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Motor Accidents Cross Roads Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 January 1929 · page 6

Following a collision between a motor car and a motor cycle at the Cross Roads, on Saturday night. Joseph Skelton (23), of Main-road. Boolaroo, a railway porter,…

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Aristocrat Sentenced Drowned His Son Devil's Island Decade

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 14 January 1929 · page 7

All Franco has been impassioned by the sensational murder trial at Toulouse in which the principal figures are Plerre de Rayssac, a young man…

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Stabbing Affray Man and Woman Injured Italian Arrested Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 January 1929 · page 5

There was a dramatic termination to an argument between an Italian shopkeeper and two customers last night, when a knife was used, and a man and woman…

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