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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Accidents

Accidents, 1932

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Nasty Accident Boys Thrown From Horse

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 4 July 1932 · page 2

Two boys, Frank Hickey and Edward Slip, of Erskine-street, were riding a horse bare-back on the river flat last Thursday, when the animal…

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Latest Telegrams Monday's News Seriously Injured

The Western Herald · Tuesday 5 July 1932 · page 2

The demented woman, Mrs Elizabeth Walker, who was thought to have been burnt to death in a fire at a farm house near Wiseman's Ferry on…

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Collision Miraculous Escapes

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 7 July 1932 · page 1

Between 1 and 2 o'clock to day, a collision occurred at the intersection of Cobboran and Darling Strolls. Mr. Claude Suttor, in his single-seater…

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Motor Fatality Life Lost at Uralla Warialda

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 7 July 1932 · page 1

Harold Kirkby (34), of Bald Rock, Kingstown, near Uralla, was killed in a motor accident near here. Travelling alone, he left Warialda about noon…

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Lime in Eyes Painful Accident

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 7 July 1932 · page 1

When Mrs. J. White, of Erskine Street, was shaking a bag of lime to-day, some of the fiery material entered her eyes. Suffering severe pain, Mrs…

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ACCIDENTS Series of Mishaps

The Wellington Times · Thursday 7 July 1932 · page 3

THIS week has been rather an unfortunate one—especially amongst the children, as several mishaps, some serious and others less so, have taken…

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Shocking Fatality Man Cut to Pieces Sydney

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 8 July 1932 · page 2

While a tram was proceeding at a fast speed through heavy rain at Moore Park last night, the driver noticed a man lying between…

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Painful Accident Lime in Eyes

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 8 July 1932 · page 2

Mrs. Jack White, of Erskine-street, North Dubbo, was the victim of a very painful accident yesterday morning. In attempting to shake lime from a bag…

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Steamer Sinks Ten Drowned Rescue Work Difficult. Melbourne

The Wellington Times · Monday 11 July 1932 · page 1

Within a few hundred yards of the shore, a Melbourne coastal steamer foundered yesterday, with terrible…

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Air Tragedy Naval Commander Injured

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 12 July 1932 · page 1

New Bedford, Massachusetts, Monday. Philip Mostrom and S. Powell, both of New Bedford, were killed, and Commander A. W. S. Agar, of H.M.S…

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Painful Accident

The Western Herald · Tuesday 12 July 1932 · page 2

The very many friends of Mrs. C. Gobetti will be sorry to learn that she is confined to her bed with a serious injury to her leg. On Sanday…

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Motor Accident Wonderful Escapes from Death

The Wellington Times · Thursday 14 July 1932 · page 2

WHILE travelling, to Wellington last night at about 8 o'clock, two travellers from Sydney had a narrow escape, from death when their…

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Latest Telegraphic Information Unemployed Riot One Hundred Injured People Assist Police Agitators Recognised Cairns

The Wellington Times · Monday 18 July 1932 · page 1

A serious conflict ensued between police, assisted by citizens, and a number of unemployed at Cairns, owing to…

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An Accident Gun Discharges. And Kills Man. Hobart

The Wellington Times · Monday 18 July 1932 · page 1

A fatal accident occurred at Kooyna yesterday, when Lily Parkinson, aged 18 years, accidentally discharged a gun when out hunting with a…

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Shooting Fatality

The Western Herald · Tuesday 19 July 1932 · page 2

Hobart—Francis John Williams, 21, a dairy assistant, was shot dead at Upper Sandy Bay last night. Alfred Williams, the dead man's younger…

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COLLISION The Empress Bumps a Tramp Montreal

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 19 July 1932 · page 1

The liner, Empress of Britain, conveying the British delegation to Ottawa, came into collision with a tramp steamer in the St. Lawrence, but later…

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Shooting Accident Youth Wounded

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 20 July 1932 · page 2

Alfred Thomas Langford, aged 21, who is employed at Wirribella," Obley Road, was accidently shot in the groin by his brother…

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EXPLOSION Boys' Experiment With Chemicals One Critically Injured. Sydney

The Wellington Times · Thursday 21 July 1932 · page 1

Two boys, Stephen Stanworth and Colin Atkins, were experimenting with chemicals at the former's home at Bondi yesterday when a terrific…

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Mine Fatality

The Western Herald · Friday 22 July 1932 · page 2

Two Brokes Hill miners were killed when the cage in which they were ascending a shaft at the Zinc Corporation Mine dropped 250 feet…

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Old Man Injured Knocked Down by Car

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 25 July 1932 · page 3

At 6.30 on Saturday a man named Harold Newman, aged 60, was crossing Macquarie-street near Barton House when he was knocked down by…

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