Sad Drowning Fatality
Yesterday the District Coroner was apprised of the death by drowning of the two-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Francis. of T[?]m. It appears that…
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Schoolboy Drowned
SYDNBY, Tuesday.—George Back, a schoolboy, aged 11, was drowned while surfing at Dee Why yesterday. The body has not yet been recovered…
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A lad named Leslie Rayner, aged 13, was shockingly injured as a result of a gun accident at Wyan on Thursday morning, and narrowly escaped…
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SYDNEY, Friday.--Thomas Bryant was crushed to death between two railway trucks in the Goulburn railway Yards yesterday…
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ADELAIDE, Sunday.—Arnold Mensforth, dentist, went for a swim in a waterhole, and after being in the water for a few minutes he exclaimed: "I am done." He…
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At Newcastle to-day a boy was handling a shotgun when in accidentally exploded and shot him. He died from the effects…
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A boy named Leslie Raynor, aged 13, was admitted to the Grafton Hospital on Thursday afternoon suffering from gunshot wounds in both hands and bruises and abrasions of…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—C. Thomas, aged 13, was accidentally shot dead at Wallsend. Another boy was handling a shot gun when it accidentally exploded…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—A Hobart message states that a man fired at a large rat in a garden. He missed the rat, and the bullet passed through a billycan and paling fence…
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A boy named Leslic Raynor, aged 13, son of Mr. David Raynor, of Casino, was admitted to the Grafton Hospital suffering from gunshot wounds in both…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Boy and a Gun. Serious Shooting Accident at Casino. SYDNEY
A 13-year-old boy living at Casino left home with a shotgun in search of game. The gun became fast in a hollow stump, and while trying to extricate…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A burning fatality occurred near Gilgandra. The five-year-old son of Mr. J. Martin was trying to light a lamp when it flared up, setting the child's…
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With reference to that part of our report regarding the shooting accident in which the lad Rayner was injured at Wyan on Thursday, in which it was…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Mrs. Crutcher was badly injured and her year-old.' infant was killed as the result of a cart capsizing at Baulkham Hills…
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While Mr. W. Beard, proprietor of the South-side hairdressing saloon, was cleaning a fanlight at his premises yesterday he slipped and fell to the floor…
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A sad drowning fatality occurred at 6 o'clock yesterday evening at Tumbulgum, the victim being a little girl of eight years named Jean Geddes,…
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Mr. Jack Montgomery while assisting to break in a cow on his brother's place at Ironpot Creek during the week, fell and was…
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SYDNEY, Friday.--A motor car collided with the stone coping of the Anzac Parade, Moore Park, this morning. The driver saw a motor cycle…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Ernest Higgins, 30, a dairyman, was drowned while fishinp off the rocks at Broute this afternoon. He was carried out by a big wave, and before the…
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A fisherman named Ernest Higgins was drowned at Bronte -this afternoon. Higgins, who was fishing, from the rocks, near Tamarama, was washed into deep…
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