Inquests Into Fires
The District Coroner (Mr. W. R. Payten) announced to-day that he would hold an inquest regarding the destruction by fire of the…
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Fires & bushfires, 1939
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Mother Fire. Stored Furniture Destroyed. Cause Not Officially Known
There has been another fire at Narromine. It happened on Sunday morning, two weeks the last one and on the same…
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Just when residents were beginning to feel that the fire bug had ceased operations, another lire occurred early on Sunday morning…
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Several requests from the Trangle Urban Committee were dealt with at the Timbrebongie Shire Council meeting at Narromine on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Trangie and the Shire. Matters Dealt With By The Council. Fire Brigade
Many matters in which the Trangie Urban Committee are acting for the residents of the town were dealt with at the…
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It is believed that evidence of a startling nature will be given at Narromine next month when the District Coroner…
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At the enquiry into the fire at the house occupied by Mr. and Mrs. R. Herring, to-morrow afternoon, evidence will be…
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The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council reserved judgement on a question affecting some hundreds of woolgrowers whose…
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Heavy tread upon the path, Wet and cold, he's home at last, Warning click of garden gate, I must tear or I'll be late…
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The blowing of the fire siren at about 1.20 on Tuesday was responsible for interrupting many residents whilst…
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Evidence that an explosion was heard, and that some person or persons had entered the house illicitly while the owner and his family were on holidays, was given at an inquiry held by the Deputy Coroner (Mr. W. R. Payten)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →First Narromine Fire Inquest Coroner Returns Open Verdict. Police State No Connection With Other Narromine Fires
The inquest into the first of the series of fires in Narromine took place on Wednesday afternoon, before the District Coroner (Mr. W. R. Payten). The house was that owned by Cecil Roy Herring a railway fettler. in Manildra Street…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Found Guilty of Threatening Behaviour. Well-known Residents in Court. Denial Of Connection With Narromine Fires
"You will both have to find someone who is prepared to risk £30 that you will be of good behaviour for six months," Hold Police Magistrate R. G. Cookson, at the Narromine Police Court, on Tuesday, to Bernard Pringie and Frederick Walsh, who were found guilty…
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John Margaret, aged about 50 years, had a narrow escape from asphyxiation when a fire broke out early…
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It is believed that when the Deputy Coroner (Mr. W. R. Payten) holds inquiries Into two recent fires at Narromine, to-morrow, an…
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An open verdict was returned by the Deputy Coroner (Mr. W. R. Payten) at an inquiry at Narromine yesterday concerning a fire…
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An allegation that deliberate perjury had been committed was made at an inquiry at Narromine yesterday, concerning a fire at the E.M.U. Hall, at the corner of Dandaloo and Derribong Streets, on the night of…
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Ernest Silvester Sullivan, who said he lived at Collyburl house, across the river, said he was at the swimming baths that night. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Open Verdicts Returned On Two Narromine Fires. Witnesses Deny Statements Given To Police. Claim They Were "Bamboozled." Accusations Against Narromine Resident Contradicted In Court
Enquiries into the first four fires in the epidemic at Narromine, in February, were covered by the inquests, at Narromine yesterday, into the fires at the premises owned by the Catholic Club, in Dandaloo Street, and at the Court House Hotel stables. In both cases the…
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An inquiry will be held at Narromine to-morrow concerning the fire which destroyed the Macquarie Stores at Narromine on February…
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