Lift Fatality. Driver Killed at the Wheel. SYDNEY
Alex McNeil, motor driver, employed by Anthony Hordern, was killed and Walter Spencer, blacksmith, injured as the result of a lift accident this…
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Fatal Accident
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A lift, containing a motor chassis weighing about five tons crashed to the ground floor in the premises of Samuel Wright, coachbuilder,…
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Constable Tardy, of Lismore, yesterday afternoon received telephonic, information from Grafton that his nephew, Cecil Payne, had been drowned. The deceased was 12…
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On Sunday Mr. Percy Eggins, of Ulmarra, who was coming to Grafton on his motor cycle, met with a nasty accident, which resulted in his sustaining a broken leg, From…
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Constable Yardy, of Lismore, yesterday afternoon received telephonic information from Grafton that his nephew, Cecil Payne, had been drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Remarkable Revolver Accident
While waiting for a tramcar with four boy scouts, in front of Tattersall's Club, Adelaide, Scoutmaster Lewis Matthew Henderson (aged 17)…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Accident to the Motor Train
On Wednesday of last week the motor train, which has been doing such splendid work on the Lismore-Grafton line, had a break down on the Lismore…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—A boat containing three men and a boy capsized at Seymour, Victoria. All the occupants were saved except the boy, whom the father…
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PERTH, Saturday:—A man named Cambridge White lost his life in the river near Fremantle while endeavoring to rescue a little girl who had fallen into the water…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ghastly Tram Fatality. Woman Shockingly Mutilated. SYDNEY
A woman named Adele Christen was terribly mutilated by a tram yesterday, her brains being dashed out, while the wheels passed over her body and limbs…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Phillip B. Nunn, 19, one of the victims of the aeroplane smash at Mornington on Friday evening whilst delivering evening newspapers, died…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →General News. Bawden's Bridge Drowning Fatality
The body of Cecil Payne, who was drowned in the river at Bawden's Bridge, on Thursday last, was recovered on Friday afternoon and conveyed to his parents' residence,…
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WELLINGTON, N.Z., Monday.—Two persons Were killed and a number seriously injured as the result of a tram running off the rails near Wellington…
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A sad drowning, fatality occurred at Bawden's Bridge on New Year's Day. A boy named Cecil James Paine, aged 12 years, eldest son of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Street Fatality. Indirect Result of Cloud Burst
SYDNEY, Monday.—A big cloud burst at Goulburn on Saturday was the indirect cause of the death of Mrs. Irene Stewart. A street bridge became choked with debris, and…
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A very sad drowning fatality occurred at Bawden's Ridge, some eight miles from Grafton, by which a lad named Cecil Paine, 12 years, eldest…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ghastly Fatality. Caught and Mangled by Tram. Woman's a Wful End
What is described as the most ghastly tram fatality that has occurred in Sydney for some years took place in Hunter-street, near the end of…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—John Thornton was driving a party of Six home from Cooma in a car heavily laden with supplies when two wheels collapsed at a dangqrous turn…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Crime and Accident. Heavy Crop for 1919. SYDNEY
There were 14 murders in the city and suburbs during 1919, as, against three the previous year. There was a 100 per cent increase in poisoning cases in 1919,…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—According to evidence given at the Coroner's Court Mrs. Frances Cavanagh entered her friend's room at her home at Darlinghurst, and holding up…
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