Drowning Case
SYDNEY, Monday.—While Ellen Gilchrist, residing in Macquarie-street, Leichardt, was fishing off the rocks at the foot of the cliffs at Dee Why she was washed off by a…
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Drowned in the Surf
SYDNEY, Monday.—A number of bathers were washed out in the surf at Stanwell Park yesterday. One, a returned soldier, Charles Dobbie, was drowned…
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Helen Gilchrist was fishing off the rocks at Deewhy with a gentleman friend when a large wave broke over the rocks and swept her into the sea, and she…
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A very serious motor accident occurred on the Boonoo Boonoo road at a spot near the Ten-Mile. It appears pears that Mr. W. Narborough,…
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A remarkable drowning accident occurred Deception Bay (Q.) on Friday night on Saturday morning. Mr. Fergus McDougal, a land ranker from Toowoomba, left the…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.âBlarney Castle, who won the first division of the Maiden Handicap at Victoria Park lust Wednesday, got away from his rider while being exercised…
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LONDON, Wednesday.—Public interest is increasing, and has gripped everybody's imagination. Scientists and experts are freely discssing and speculating. Major…
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At the inquiry at Coraki into the death of Leslie Payne, aged 14, who lost his life by a pea rifle he was carrying exploding, when he slipped…
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A very sad case of drowning happened at The Pocket on Sunday afternoon of last week when Cecil, the five years' old son of Mr. and Mrs…
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SYDNEY, Thursday —Angelo Lenbo, 40, shot Stella Norris and then committed suicide at Melbourne. Lenbo and Norris were engaged to be married. The former came…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—While a train was being shunted into No. 1 platform at Fliuders-street station it struck a stationary engine. Four carirages were much…
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A fire broke out at a picture theatre to-day and the structure, of wood and iron, was practically destroyed. It is thought that the fusing of electric wires…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Ernest Marsh. 31, an attendant at Sydney Hospital, was drowned while bathing at National Park. All efforts to restore animation proved futile…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Felix Fahcy was drowned while bathing in a dam near Orange yesterday…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Phyllis Manning, 13, was killed and her brother badly injured as the result of a motor cycle and side car driven by the latter colliding with a cart…
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Phyllis Manning (13) was killed at Manly last night through being thrown from the side car of a motor cycle which was driven by her brother. Death was…
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Yesterday morning at about 10 o'clock a horse belonging to Mr. D. Wotherspoon, of North Lismore, by some means got in this river and was in the water for close on…
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A telegram from Babinda states that a severe cyclone visited Cairns, and that a number of residents were injured and many dwellings demolished. Small tidal…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday:—A motor cycle collided with a runaway horse in Cleveland-street. Mrs. Turgeon, who was in the sidecar, was thrown out, her skull being…
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A triple tragedy occurred on Saturday afternoon at Maffra, Victoria, when Arthur E. Porter, aged 45, and his daughters Annie, aged 15, and Ethel, aged 13, were drowned…
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