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North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Accidents

Accidents, 1928

107 stories in North West (Tamworth to Moree)'s papers · page 2 of 6

Three Boys Drowned. Hobart

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Monday 5 March 1928 · page 2

Three boys, Reginald Howard (16), Stanley Howard (14), and James Godfrey (15), were drowned in a deep hole in the Coal River. Their bodies…

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Jockey Fatally Injured. Melbourne

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Monday 5 March 1928 · page 2

William Williams (14), an [?]tered jockey, of Kooroh, was exercising a racehorse when it stumbled. Williams lost control of the rains and the…

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Motor Fatality. Melbourne

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Monday 12 March 1928 · page 2

Miss Violet De Leslie (25) was killed and two others seriously injured when a motor car collided with a motor cycle and side car at Brighton…

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Bulli Pass Accident. Sydney

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Monday 12 March 1928 · page 2

In connection with this lorry accident on Bull Pass, Gertrude Fern, one of the victims, died in a hospital last night…

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Lift Fatality. Melbourne

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Thursday 15 March 1928 · page 2

While leaning over a [?] having a conversation with a friend on the floor below in a city building yesterday afternoon, William Hodkinson was…

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Motor Cycle Fatality. Melbourne

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Thursday 15 March 1928 · page 2

In a collision between an electric tram car and motor cycle and side-car on Hawthorne Road last night, John Glynn was killed, Marjorie King…

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Saturday's Accident

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Thursday 22 March 1928 · page 2

In our report in Monday's issue of the accident to little Madge Wheeler we stated that the child rode her bicycle in front of the lorry. This, we…

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Motor Truck Accident. Melbourne

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Monday 2 April 1928 · page 2

Two motor trucks carrying twenty five people ran backwards down a steep hill near Warrandyte yesterday. One dropped twelve feet into a cutting…

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Terrible Accident

The North Western Courier · Monday 2 April 1928 · page 1

George Pool, aged 18, was working barefooted in Granger's factory, at Surry Hills, when he trod on a nail which pierced his foot, pinning him…

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Doctor Drowned

The North Western Courier · Thursday 5 April 1928 · page 1

Dr. Jim Fitzsimmons, while swimming in a pool at Condobolin, was swept over a weir and drowned…

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Accidentally Shot

The North Western Courier · Thursday 5 April 1928 · page 1

Edward Culford, 14, was shot dead with a pea rifle at Lithgow. At the inquest evidence given by Frank Johnstone, who is said to have…

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Girl Injured

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Thursday 12 April 1928 · page 2

During the running of a rare for girls at the Cycling Club's carnival a Young, May Thompson fell heavily, sustaining severe concussion, a…

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Rifle Fatality. Sydney

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Thursday 12 April 1928 · page 2

Henry Arthur Wheatley, 16 years and eight months, who resided with his parents at Marrickville, ws found in a shed at the roar of his home last…

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Motor Car Fatality. Melbourne

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Monday 16 April 1928 · page 2

Charles Stewart (29) and John Ryan (256 were killed and five other Persons injured yesterday morning when a large motor car lett the…

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Disastrous Train Collision. Shanghai

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Monday 16 April 1928 · page 2

Hundreds of Chinese were killed when a refugee train, on route Tientsin, collided with a military train on a bridge. Several of the carriages…

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Man Killed in Motor Smash Five Others Injured Sydney

The North Western Courier · Monday 23 April 1928 · page 1

When a motor lorry ran down a steep embankment near Camden on Saturday night, it overturned, and Wilfred Leslie Health, 29, was…

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Motor Lorry Accident. One Man Killed. SYDNEY

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Monday 23 April 1928 · page 2

A motor lorry, containing a number of persons, ran down a step embankment on a lonely portion of the road between Camden and The Oaks…

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Minister Injured Falls Beneath Train. Sydney

The North Western Courier · Monday 30 April 1928 · page 1

Rev. Joseph Tarn, supernumary minister attached to the Concord Methodist Church, received serious injuries last night, who he fell…

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Civil Court H.J. GRIMWOOD V. the Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation

The North Western Courier · Thursday 3 May 1928 · page 4

Plaintiff sought to recover from the defendant company the sum of £90, being insurance on his motor lorry, destroyed by fire…

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Motor Car Accident MRS. A. W. Shelton Injured. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Shelton and

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Monday 14 May 1928 · page 2

their son Neville hud a narrow escape from being killed on Friday last, when the car in which they were travelling skidded, and turncil complexly over…

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