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North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Accidents

Accidents, 1928

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Late Wires Injured Man Leaves Hospital Dressed in Pyjamas Sydney

The North Western Courier · Monday 26 November 1928 · page 1

On Monday last, John Gillan, a taxi driver, was admitted to the casuality ward of the Sydney Hospital, suffering from a fractured skull he…

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Fatality at Muswellbrook

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Thursday 29 November 1928 · page 7

Mr. H. W. James, manager at Hie Scone Electric Light and Power Co., while working on a high pole on Tuesday at Muswellbrook came into…

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Two Girls Drowned MELBOURNE

The North Western Courier · Thursday 6 December 1928 · page 1

Two school girls, Violet Lewin, 8, and Eileen Lacey, 10, were caught in an undertow-while bathing off the South Melbourne beach, and were…

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Accident to Mr Winshuttle

Manilla Express · Friday 7 December 1928 · page 2

On Wednesday night Mr Winshuttle who is a subject of that very undesirable quality of sleep walking, fell over his balcony to…

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Returned Soldier Drowned. Melbourne

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Monday 10 December 1928 · page 2

Richard Douglas, a returned soldier, west drowned in a billabong near F[?]nham, on Saturday. He had driven noise, to which a drag was attached, animal sir into deep water seeing that the horse was drowning. Douglas unfastened the clain train. The animal got free, but Douglas sank. His…

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Accidentally Shot. Hobart

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Monday 10 December 1928 · page 2

Steve Kerrison, a storekeeper of Derby, was accidentally shot last night. It is said that his little son trod on the trigger of his father's gun,…

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Boy Drowned

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Thursday 20 December 1928 · page 2

Albert Woodbury (13), son of Mr. and Mrs. George Woodbury, of inverell, was thrown from a canoe into the McIntyre River on Tuesday and…

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