Aged Man Walked Into Death Fire Amazing Suicide Theory Charred Body at Blackburn Melbourne
An astonishing story of selfdestruction by fire will be related to the Coroner if a theory, which detectives are now…
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Fires & bushfires, 1939
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Was 64-Year-old Man Victim? Victorian Fire Mystery Woman Finds Body in Paddock Saw Smouldering Straw-stack MELBOURNE
It is now believed that the charred body of a man found at Blackburn, 30 miles east of Melbourne, early this morning was that of James Barnes, who lived…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Hospital Fire Drives 130 Patients Into Snow Beds Carried Out by Heroic Nurses Pathetic Scenes In Intense Cold Wellington (N.z.)
One hundred and thirty patients, some gravely ill, were rushed out of their beds into the snow early to-day when the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Arson Suspected Leichhardt Cottage Fire Man Seen Running Away Sydney
After an empty weatherboard cottage had been destroyed by fire at Leichhardt to-night, police were told that shortly before the fire broke out a man wan…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Hospital Fire Nurses Carry Patients to Safety Beds Moved Into Snow Wellington (N.z.)
One hundred and thirty patients from Southland Hospital at Invercargill were carried to safety by nurses when fire almost destroyed the building early this…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Family Escaped by Ladder Fire in Bangalow Bank BANGALOW
The Manager of the Commonwealth Bank (Mr. J. Keast), his wife and child escaped by ladder from the second story of the bank premises, when a fire broke…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fire in Cottage at East Maitland
An outbreak of fire occurred this morning in the side wall of a weather-board cottage owned and occupied by Mr. R. P. Jack, or Morpeth-road. East…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Chief Witness Dead Man Charged with Arson Sydney Arcade Fire Sydney
One of the chief Crown witnesses in the case in which Paul Oleinikoff, 34 is charged with arson, had died since he pave evidence at the Central Police Court,…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Fire Brigade Heroes "Suicide Squad" Men Get Medals
Second Officer Edgar Double and Third Officer W. G. Squirrell, the "suicide squad" of the Ipswich Fire Brigade, England, have been awarded…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire Guts Milk Bar at Manly. Wharf Partially Destroyed Sydney
Fire early this morning destroyed part of the Manly ferry wharf. It broke out at 1 a.m. and the milk bar and portion of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Grass Fire
Cessnock Fire Brigade answered a call last night to a grass fire at the rear of Bainbridge's garage, on Maitland-road. The fire was beaten out…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire Destroys House at Kearsley
A house was completely destroyed by fire at Kearsley during Sunday night but nobody was aware of the outbreak…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Making Fire in Court Incendiarism Charge Sydney
Only after the third attempt was Professor Frederick East, augh, professor and lecturer in engineering, technology and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Manly Wharf Fire Ferry Service Maintained SYDNEY
A fire, believed to have started in a milk balk bar caused £3000 damage to the Manly wharf thin morning. At the height of the blaze, a fireman…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Poles Fire Upon Nazi Plane Incident at Danzig London
A twin-engined. German bombing plane from Danzig was fired on to-day when it crossed the Polish frontier between…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Devices in Arcade Chiropodist on Trial Professor Demonstrates Sydney
At the Quarter Sessions to-day, before Judge Hill, Paul Olelnikoff, 34, a chiropodist, was charged with having, on April 17, made a cardboard cylinder containing…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Arcade Fire Chiropodist Guilty SYDNEY
After a hearing which lasted three days, Paul Olcinikoff, 34, chiropodist, was found guilty at the Darlinghurst Quarter Sessions today on a charge of having made…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fire Caused Mild Stir in Classroom
All outbreak of fire beneath the floor of a class-room caused a stir at the old Cessnock High School to-day. Cessnock Fire Brigade was quickly…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Panic in Fire in Flats Tenants Trapped Smart Work in Rescues Sydney
Scenes of panic were witnessed when 36 tenants of Ben Nevis flats, Darlinghurst, which caught fire at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sydney Arcade Fire "Ingenious Scheme," Says Judge SYDNEY
Paul Oleinikoff, 34, Chiropodist, was sentenced by Judge Hill, at the Quarter Sessiors to-day, to 23 months' imprisonment for attempted incendiarism…
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