Boy Drowned Went to Help Cousin Rescue Efforts in Vain Melbourne
In a heavy swell at Brighton this afternoon. Russell Henry Barnes, 9, of Albury was drowned. A cousin, Bruce Austin McLachlan, 10, was rescued and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents
Accidents, 1939
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Sought Release on Bond Housebreaker's Vain Plea Newcastle Woman Injured Sydney
Edward James Victor Owens, 20, who pleaded "Guilty" at the Darlinghurst Quarter Sessions to-day to five charges of housebreaking, tearfully pleaded with…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Manslaughter Charge Fails Moree Traffic Accident MOREE
Arising out of a traffic accident which occurred at Moree on August 6 last year, Tom Cross stood his trial at the Moree Quarter Sessions on a charge of having…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Ambulance Car Overturns Was Hurrying to Accident GRAFTON
A Grafton ambulance car, burrying to the aid of three persons who were injured in a car smash at Cangai, 50 miles from Grafton, skildded and turned over in a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →To-day's Accidents Collided With Horse
Riding along the Pacific Highway about 2 a.m. this morning on a motorcycle and side-car Albert Henry William Coates, 35, of William Street,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →11 Died in Naval Collision Paris, February 8
Eleven were killed and 14 injured in a collision at sea in which the cruiser George Leygules almost cut the destroyer Bisou in half…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Three Ex-parte Hearings Before District Court Collision Claim Verdict for Defendant
Three ex-parte matters and a claim for damages arising out of a motor collision were included in the cases heard by Judge Nield in the Newcastle District Court…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Struck Viaduct Man Injured at Merewether Was Standing on Lorry
Jack Beal, 19, of Nelson-street, Aunandale Sydney, was standing on a lorry facing the rear, and did not see it approaching the viaduct across Llewellyn street…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Two Trains Collide in Queensland Driver Crushed to Death Three Others Injured Brisbane
One man was killed, two seriously hurt and one slightly injured in a collision to-day between a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →To-day's Accidents Boy Cyclist Hurt
When Gregory Knight, 15, Braye Street, Mayfield, came into collision with a lorry at the corner of Turton and Georgetown Roads, Waratah,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Miner Injured
Malcolm Bridge, 34, of, Francis-street, cessnock, employed as a tophand at Kalingo colliery, was chocking a skip yesterday when the chock slipped and allowed…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Cyclist Seriously Injured
Lindsay Smith, 18, of Fawcett-st. Mayfield, was admitted to Newcastle Hospital to-day with a probable fracture of the skull, concussion,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Left Leaking Boat Man Drowned at Taree TAREE
Jack Lewis Street, 41, a member of the firm Street and Parish, storekeepers, Cundletown, was drowned in the Manning River last night…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Carried Half a Mile on Stretcher Elderly Woman Injured
Mrs. Mary Scarborough 72, of Marmong Point, was walking along the waterfront at Marmong Point last night, when she slipped on gravel and fractured and…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Cyclist Injured
While competing in a bicycle race at Greta on Saturday afternoon J. Thompson, 24, of Cliff-street, Greta, fell from his bicycle when the machine got in…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Slaughterman Injured
While killing a bullock at the slaughter yard of Mr. G. Atmore. butcher, at Kurri to-day. Andrew Albert Freeman, 48, of 20 Bridge-street, West…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Drowned in Swamp at Maroubra Sydney
Caught by reeds in a swamp at Maroubra Speedway while attempting to retrieve planks used by children for rafts. James Henry Murdoch, 54,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Boy Drowned in Brickpit Merrylands Tragedy Four Companions Attempted Rescue Sydney
Bruce Haskell. 11, of Merrylands, was drowned in Williams's brickpit at Merrylands late to-day. Unable to swim, he jumped from a crude diving-board on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Over Embankment Young Man Injured Near Gosford Car Somersaulted Gosford
When a car ran over a 10ft. embankment on the Pacific Highway, south of Gosford, late last night. Irving Hall Cleland, 23, of Ashburn-place, Gladesville,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Two Dead: 14 INJURED Smash on Clarence Lorry Over Bridge Grafton
Two men were killed and 14 were injured, two critically, when a contractor's lorry from Lismore, carrying 18 men and a big road…
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