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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1920

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Sensational Motor Car Accident. Car Topples Over Clyda Mountain

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 21 May 1920 · page 4

On Tuesday afternoon last an accident happened on the Clyde mountain road of a sensational character which, fortunately, was…

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A Series of Accidents

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 25 May 1920 · page 2

On Saturday night last a series of accidents happened to a man named Brown, who was driving Chewing's motor car from…

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Local and General News ACCIDENT

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 11 June 1920 · page 2

On Tuesday last Mr. P. Kennedy, of Reidsdale, had a remarkably narrow escape from a serious accident. He left Braidwood about…

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Local and General News ACCIDENT

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 22 June 1920 · page 2

A correspondent writes from Stanthorpe:—Recently Mr. W. Calthorpe, brother of Mr. W. Callan, of Ballalaba, met with a very…

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Drowning Fatality

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 29 June 1920 · page 7

Countess Dudley, wife of a forDmer Governor-GGeneral of Aus tralia, was drowned while bathing at Rosmu[?], Connemara, Ireland…

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Prince's Narrow Escape. Railway Accident in W.a

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 9 July 1920 · page 4

A most alarming accident happened to the Royal train on Monday afternoon, at 2.45 o'clock, when tea miles from Bridgetown W.A.)…

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Fatal Car Accident

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 20 July 1920 · page 2

While crossing Myrtle Street, City, last night, Mrs. Ada Nowitzki was knocked down by a car, which passed on without stopping. She…

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Railway Smash Three Killed Fifteen Injured. SYDNEY

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 6 August 1920 · page 4

An empty passenger train while shunting at Hurstville Station last night collided with a stationary train full of…

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Fatal Motor Accident

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 6 August 1920 · page 2

A man named Wilson and his wife were killed at Wairarapa, New Zealand, by their car overturning while returning from wedding…

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Corner's Inquests. Shocking Fatality at Little Tindera

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 10 August 1920 · page 2

Mr. Coroner Gale, accompanied by Sen. Sergeant Clarke, proceeded to little Tinders on Sunday afternoon last, in responee to an urgent call from the Jerangle police,…

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Fatal Collision

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 13 August 1920 · page 2

At 9 o'clock this morning the express train from Wonthaggie to Melbourne dashed into a motor ear at? a level crossing 33 miles from…

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Motor Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 13 August 1920 · page 2

Monsignor O'Haran. who was injured in a motor car accident yesterday, was slightly improved this morning. His condition, however,…

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Bicycle Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 31 August 1920 · page 2

Mr. T. Short, school teacher, of Krawaree, met. with a .severe accident while riding his push bike into Braidwood on Friday…

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Shooting Fatality

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 14 September 1920 · page 5

John Henry Mansfield, aged 35, a grazier, of Adaminaby, died after lingering nearly 24 hours with a pea rifle bullet in bis brain…

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Shocking Fatal Accident at Hall. Popular Young Man's Untimely End

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 21 September 1920 · page 2

News was phoned on Saturday evening from Hall to Dr. Blackall requiring his attendance there in a case where a young man had been crushed just then by being…

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Frightful Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 24 September 1920 · page 6

A young man named Mr. Ernie Gribble, working for his father at Hall, ret with a fatal accident on Saturday afternoon. He had just…

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Aeroplane Fatality

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 28 September 1920 · page 7

The pilot and four passengers, of whom three were women, were killed through aa aeroplane crash, ing at Hayes, England…

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Tragic Railway Fatality

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 28 September 1920 · page 2

Hurled to the track by the parting of a train, Lancelot Jacob Herrman (driver), and Albert Edward Taylor (fireman), both of Goulburn, were killed in a shocking…

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Telegraphic News. Monday, 4 p.m. Railway Fatality

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 28 September 1920 · page 7

Shortly after 8 O'clock on Saturday night the engine of a down goods train from Goulburn parted from the tender when between…

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Accident to Motor Cyclist

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 19 October 1920 · page 2

Mr. Hugh Bingley met with a serious accident on Saturday night, which resulted in a compound fracture of the right leg, below the…

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