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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Accidents

Accidents, 1927

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Railway Fireman Injured

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Wednesday 12 January 1927 · page 2

On Friday night a rather peculiar accident happened at the railway over head bridge. A stock train was coming into the station from the west. The…

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Burning Accident

The Western Herald · Wednesday 12 January 1927 · page 2

On the 6th inst, a young girl named Eilsen Harrod was Brought to the Bourke Hospital suffering from severe burns received as the result of her…

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Fatality at Maroubra

Western Age · Friday 14 January 1927 · page 4

R. G. ("Phill") Garlick, 44, the noted racing car driver, met a frightful death while travelling at 93 miles an hour at Maroubra Speedway on Saturday night…

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Rabbits Cause an Accident

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Wednesday 19 January 1927 · page 2

At the last meeting of the Young Shire Council the councillors were called upon to consider a rather peculiar case. A letter was read containing a bill for…

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A Painful Accident

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Wednesday 19 January 1927 · page 2

As the result of a bar breaking on a machine he was walking, Mr. Andrew Collie received a nasty wound and it broken finger. Dr. Maclean found a…

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Minore Drowning Case. Coronial Inquiry

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 21 January 1927 · page 4

An inquiry was held yesterday afternoon by Mr. W. Bromhead, Coroner, into the circumstances surrounding the death of William Duffell, who was…

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Three Drowned at Tuggerah

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 21 January 1927 · page 5

A boat containing four young men and four girls was capsized at Tuggerals about midnight on Tuesday, and three of the occupants, Eileen Madden…

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Minore Drowning Case. Coronial Inquiry

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Wednesday 26 January 1927 · page 2

An inquiry was held on Thursday afternoon by Mr. W. Bromhead, Coroner, into the circumstances surrounding the death of William Daffell, who was…

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An Injured Foot

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Wednesday 26 January 1927 · page 2

We regret to have to report that one day last week Mr. Percy Reynolds, leading porter at the local railway station, was the victim of a very painful…

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Girl's Painful Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 28 January 1927 · page 6

Eileen Darling, aged nine years, slipped from a suing on which she was playing at her home in Bullge- street on Tuesday, and fell on a spiked…

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Two-year-old Child Drowned

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 4 February 1927 · page 3

Nolia Jean Morris, the two- year- old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Morris, of Balladoran, wandered away from the homestead, and rolling down the bank…

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Speedway Fatality

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 8 February 1927 · page 1

Another fatal, accident occurred at Maroubra Speedway, Sydney, on Saturday night. At almost the same spot as tile late "Phil' Garlick, Leo. Salmon,…

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Another Maroubra Fatality

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Wednesday 9 February 1927 · page 2

Driving an Overland car in a race at Maroubra on Saturday night last from barlow left the teach when along 84 miles per hour and [?] into an [?]…

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Speedway Fatality

Western Age · Friday 11 February 1927 · page 1

Another fatal accident occurred at Maroubra Speedway, Sydney, on Saturday night. At almost the same spot as the late "Phil" Garlick, Leo. Salmon…

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Sad Child Fatality. Twelve Months Old Boy Falls Twenty Feet

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 11 February 1927 · page 6

On Wednesday afternoon about 4.30 a twelve months old boy child, Cyril Kevin Beasley Morton, was playing on the top vera[?]dah of the Boronia Cafe…

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A Nasty Accident

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Wednesday 16 February 1927 · page 2

Young Ray Forrest was the victim of an accident last week which might have had very serious results. He was assisting in killing a sheep at the…

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Hit by Horse Boy Badly Injured

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 22 February 1927 · page 2

Wallace, the eight -year -old son of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Nelson, of Bourke street, Dubbo, was seriously injured on Friday afternoon when he collided with…

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Accident to Miss Butcherine

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Wednesday 23 February 1927 · page 2

Whilst indulging in a game of tennis last Wednesday on the local court, Miss Edie Butcherine, Trangie's champion lady tennis player, met with a painful…

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First-Aid to the Injured. 1

The Wellington Times · Thursday 24 February 1927 · page 7

First-aid to the injured is a special, branch of practical medicine and surgery, by a knowledge of which trained persons are enabled to…

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Fatal Sawmill Accident

The Wellington Times · Monday 28 February 1927 · page 5

Christopher Breaden, 47, married,' died in the Parkes Hospital, as a result of an accident at Albert, on Monday. Mr. Breaden was unload…

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