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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1932

67 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 4

Telegraphic News Sydney, 2 p.m. Drowning Fatality

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 14 June 1932 · page 2

Melbourne.—Two Children, aged two and four, were found drowned yesterday morning in a swimming-hole at Sunshine. It is believed that…

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Car Accident Young Man Seriously Hurt

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 June 1932 · page 1

Uriarra Road was the scene of yet another motor accident, on Saturday night last, when a young man named Wilbur Cottam, was struck by a motor…

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Terrible Fatality

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 17 June 1932 · page 2

Mrs. Gladys Brownfield, wife of Irwin Brownfield, a dairyman, of Heatherton (Vic.), together with her two children, Bruce and Patricia,…

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Riot at Newcastle Anti-evictionists Clash with Police Many Persons Injured

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 17 June 1932 · page 3

In a sensational encounter between the police and a mob of between 150 arid 200 anti-eviction pickets at Tighe’s Hill, Newcastle, on Tuesday last, over…

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Accidental Shooting Verdict in City Tragedy

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 June 1932 · page 2

The City Coroner (Mr. May) last week returned a finding that Archibald Cecil Gibbs met an accidental death from bullet wounds while struggling…

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Failing to Stop After an Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 June 1932 · page 2

A charge of failing to stop after an accident was also preferred against the same defendant, to which he pleaded not guilty. He consented to allowing…

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Burning Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 1 July 1932 · page 2

Ah invalid pensioner, Mrs. Alice Murphy, ono of the district's oldest identities, met with a painful acctdent last Saturday. She had been…

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Submarine Sinks Sixty-si[?] Aboard Drowned CHEREBOURG

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 8 July 1932 · page 1

Sixty-six persons were drowned in a French submarine which sank suddenly in 150 feet of water while performing submarine tests in the roadstead, seven…

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Local and Genera Serious Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 8 July 1932 · page 2

A serious accident occurred at Bega last week. Jack Chapman, son of the well-known traveller for Hoffnung's, who visits Braidwood every…

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Footballer Injured

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 15 July 1932 · page 2

During the progress of a football match at Cooma on Sunday, R. E. Nesbitt, one of the local forwards, was knocked out as a result of a…

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Luck in Accidents and Hidden Injuries

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 26 July 1932 · page 3

Despite the unfortunate number of serious car accidents which occur, it may be claimed that as a body, motorists are fortunate, in that so many of…

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Baby Suffocated Verdict of Accidental Death

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 5 August 1932 · page 1

A finding of accidental death from suffocation, was recorded on Wednesday, by the deputy district coroner, Mr. P.P. Woodward, at an inquest held at…

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Big Flood in Japan 30,000 Drowned Tokio

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 August 1932 · page 1

The Sungar[?] River has risen twenty-five feet. Thirty thousand people are believed to be dead, and 25,000,000 acres of land have been inundated by flood…

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Ferry Capsizes Ninety Drowned Calcutta

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 16 August 1932 · page 1

It is feared that over 90 persons were drowned when a ferry boat capsized on a river in Bombay Presidency, when the passengers, seeing a huge python…

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Collision at Canberra Causes Motor Cyclist’s Death

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 16 August 1932 · page 1

Walter Alexander Johnson, aged 22, a messenger of the Attorney-General’s Department, died on Friday last, as a result of injuries received when the…

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Inquest at Canberra Death of Motor Cyclist Caused Accidentally

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 19 August 1932 · page 3

A verdict of accidental death was recorded by the Coroner (Mr. J.W.T. Forrest, P.M.) at the inquest, held at Canberra on Tuesday last, into the…

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Motor Fatality

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 23 August 1932 · page 7

Richard Gorst (32), of Goulburn, suffered burns which caused his death when his car overturned near Robertson and burst into flames. The…

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True Stories of Canberra Now First Published Some Light on a Past Drowning Fatality

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 August 1932 · page 2

“My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.”—Prov. I, 10. Nearly fifty years ago a young man named Thomas Studley landed in…

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Frightful Accident Traveller's Terrible Death

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 26 August 1932 · page 2

When his car overturned and caught fire near Robertson late on Saturday afternoon, Richard Gorst, 82, a Goulburn commercial traveller…

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Telegraphic News Sydney, 2 p.m. Fatal Shooting Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 2 September 1932 · page 2

Lester Enemy (8), of Randwick,was family wounded when an old revolver exploded. The bullet struck him in the head, dufficting a terrible,…

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