Youth Accidentally Shot Dead
TAMWORTH, Sunday.—Lindsay Francis Weik, 17, of Currabubula, 12 miles south of Tamworth, died soon after being accidentally shot…
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Accidents, 1951
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Three Injured in Collision
Three people were injured when a motor cycle and a bicycle collided at Weston and all were admitted to Kurri…
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GRAFTON, Monday.—Struck on the head by a small limb of a tree which fell 45 feet, Thomas Burns, 63, of Coramba, died in…
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Police and civilians today continued the search for the body of the 11-years-old boy, Carl Rawnsley, of Second-st.,…
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Louise Edwards (4). of Swanst., Morpeth, scalded her right upper arm with hot water today. Maitland Ambulance took…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A boy washing his feet in the flooded Parramatta River to-day was swept away and drowned…
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The body of Carl Thomas Rawnsley, 11 years, of Second-st., Boolaroo, who was swept from the Cockle Creek weir on…
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When he fell down the steps of his home in Harris St., Cessnock, last night Bryan Walker (5) broke his right arm…
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BRISBANE Friday.—Dr. Duhig, the 80-year-old Roman Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane, was seriously injured in a collision to-day…
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A finding of accidental death was returned yesterday by the Maitland Deputy Coroner (Mr. V. R. Jenkins) at the inquest on…
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A 17-year-old Newcastle youth accidentally shot himself in the knee with a pea rifle this afternoon…
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Maitland Hospital early this afternoon reported that James Marchese (19), shop assistant, of Hopkins-st., Merewether, was…
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Jack Yates, 30, of Gregson-avenue. Mayfield, was thrown to the road when the piston of his motor-cycle seized yesterday…
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Three motor-cyclists suffered minor injuries in a triple collision at the Devil's Elbow, Pacific Highway, Belmont North, yesterday…
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SYDNEY.—The body of a New Australian, who waded out of his depth and was drowned in the Macquarie marshes…
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NEW YORK, Jan. 29. A.A.P.—All six members of a wedding party, including the newly-married bride and bridegroom, were…
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William Colgate, 58, machineman, of Bibby-street, Hamilton, lacerated his scalp and suffered concussion when caught by a fall of stone in…
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Shirley Warbrooke, 14, of Queen-street, Rutherford, suffered contusions and lacerations to the index finger of the right hand when it…
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LONDON. — Three school-boys playing "pirates" on homemade rafts were drowned in a Birkenhead (Cheshire) dock…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Three men were badly burnt and two others slightly injured when they were sprayed with blazing liquid…
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