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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1932

67 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 3 of 4

Motor Fatality at Canberra

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 9 September 1932 · page 3

Audrey Elson, aged 27, a waitress, employed at Hotel Canberra, was killed when a motor car overturned in Northbourne Avenue, Canberra,…

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Fratricide Charge Accused Injured in Cell SYDNEY

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 9 September 1932 · page 1

Portland police advised Commissioner Childs this. morning that John Henry Hogarsen, who is charged with the murder of his brother at Cullen…

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Local and General Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 13 September 1932 · page 2

Jim Dempsey, of Krawarree, met with a painful accident on Friday. He was engaged scrubbing, and on chopping a small sapling the axe…

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Were the Papers Missing ? Town Clerk’s Accident Council Asks for Refund of Compensation Money

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 16 September 1932 · page 2

Allegations were made by the Mayor at last nights meeting of the Council, that correspondence relating to, compensation paid to the late town clerk…

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Explosion on Submarine One Killed, 32 Injured Cherbourg

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 27 September 1932 · page 2

Thirty-two persons were injured, one fatally, in an explosion in the French submarine Persee sister ship of the Promothee which was recently lost…

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Racehorses Collide Jockey Munro Seriously Injured SYDNEY

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 30 September 1932 · page 1

Rogilla, the second favorite for the Epsom Handicap, collided with another horse, Rich Lonsdale, at Randwick this morning. D. Munro, rider of Rogilla,…

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Collision with Straying Cow

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 October 1932 · page 2

The danger of straying stock on the reads within the municipality was emphasised during the week-end when a motor car collided with a cow on the…

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Boy Drowned When Canoe Capsized Sydney

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 October 1932 · page 1

The police this morning recovered the body of Eric Atkins aged 11 years, who was drowned in Cook’s River yesterday when a small canoe, in which he was…

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Sequel to Accident Judgment for £52 10/-

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 October 1932 · page 1

Before His Honor, Judge Sheridan, at the District Court yesterday, Henry William Cottam, fruiterer, of Uriarra Road, Queanbeyan. proceeded against…

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Police Officers Attacked And Severely Injured SYDNEY

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 October 1932 · page 1

Sergeant George Howard was so severely injured while attempting to break up a meeting at Glebe this morning that fears are entertained for his…

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Frightful Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Wednesday 26 October 1932 · page 7

An ambulance officer on Saturday searched among the shafts and smelting machinery of Mt. Isa (Q.) mine for a long-haired child's scalp, while…

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Shooting Fatality

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 4 November 1932 · page 2

While a young man named Walton was endeavoring to extract a cart ridge from a double-barrelled shotgun near Macksville the charge…

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Thirteen Sailors Drowned When Trawler Capsized Oslo

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 8 November 1932 · page 1

Thirteen sailors were drowned when a tempest capsized the trawler “Golden Edeepes,” which was sheltering at Breiviksbotn, where the vessel had dropped…

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Burning Fatality

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 15 November 1932 · page 7

When a spirit stove burst at the home of a family named Johnson near Windsor, four members of the family were burned, and one, Mrs.,…

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Footballer Fatally Injured

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 18 November 1932 · page 2

Jack Horder, aged 24 years, of Enfield, a well-known Western Suburbs footballer, who has been prospecting in mountainous country in…

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Burning Fatality

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 29 November 1932 · page 7

Mrs. Mary Miller (51), of East Geelong, died in hospital yesterday from burns she received when her clothing caught fire when lighting a…

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Terrible Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 29 November 1932 · page 2

Word readied this office yesterday morning of an awful accident at Buckenboura. it appears that a young married man named…

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Drowned in Well

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

At Mittagong Mr. J. A. Buckman (79), of Mount Pleasant, went to a well yesterday to draw water. As he did not return within a reasonable…

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Injured by Fall of Earth

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

A man named Petersen, who has been employed for the past couple of years fossicking for gold about Mongarlowe, was buried by a fall of…

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Flyer Injured

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 6 December 1932 · page 7

Squadron-leader McGregor, the famous New Zealand war pilot, crashed at Palmerston North, and was severely injured…

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