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Accidents, 1896

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Fatal Accident of Coolamon

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 18 August 1896 · page 2

A FATAL accident is reported from Coolamon. It appears that Bernard Hatcher, 14 years of age, was training a pony on Sunday morning. The animal while galloping broke…

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Fatal Riding Accident. Coolamon

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 18 August 1896 · page 2

A boy, aged 14, named Barnard Hatch, met with a fatal accident whilst out riding yesterday morning. The lad, who was exercising a racing pony, at about 11 o'clock…

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Charge of Throwing Vitriol. Husband and Wife Injured

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 25 August 1896 · page 3

On Saturday Annie Ryan, 30, and Robert Ryan, 36, residing in Sussex-street, were taken to Sydney Hospital suffering severely from burns, said to have been caused by…

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Blinded by a Stick. a Serious Accident

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 27 August 1896 · page 2

An accident of an extremely painful and serious nature befell Mr John Duddridge, manager of Mimosa West Station, Coolamon, at about 3 o'clock on Monday afternoon…

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Football Accidents in Sydney. a Player's Larynx Fractured

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 1 September 1896 · page 2

IN Saturday's football matches, Randwick beat Wentworth by 12 points to 3, after a very rough game, in which very little science was shown. William Warbrick, of…

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A Serious Accident

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 10 September 1896 · page 3

A SERIOUS accident (says the Burrangong Argus) happened on the afternoon of the 6th inst., to Mr. Ford, teller in the Bank of New South Wales here, and Mr. G. H. Westcott,…

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Three People Rescued from Drowning

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 12 September 1896 · page 3

There was a strange accident at Pyrmont Bridge, Sydney Harbor, late on Saturday night A Mrs Eva Devney, aged 17, by some means got into the water, whether by…

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Train Accident Near Narrabri. a Suspicious Circumstance. Narrabri

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 12 September 1896 · page 2

An accident occurred to the Moree tram last night. When passing Bobbiwa, about 12 mines from narrab[?] at 7 o'clock te engine ran into a ballock, which had strayed…

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Shocking Fatality

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 22 September 1896 · page 2

A SHOCKING accident occurred at Luxemburg, 30 miles from Cockburn in South Australia on Saturday. It appears that Mrs. Roots, the wife of a miner, left her three…

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A Sad Fatality

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 22 September 1896 · page 2

AT The Rock on Friday evening a boy named Michael Donaldson, aged 11 years, and whose father is engaged fencing in he district, met with a sad and sudden death…

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A Boating Accident

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 29 September 1896 · page 2

A boat belonging to the British firstclass bolted cruiser Narcissus, now in commission on the China Station, was returning from the shore at Grosewitch Bay, in…

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Narandera. Wednesday. Shooting Accident

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 8 October 1896 · page 2

Two brothers named Poole wore in a tent yesterday, when a Winchester rifle which had been standing in a cornor fell and went off. The bullet entered one of the men's…

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Narandera. (From Our Correspondent.) Found Drowned

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 22 October 1896 · page 3

This morning, at Narandera, the Coroner, Mr. H. G. Tingcombo, presided at an inquest hold on the body of a man who was known by the name of James Motoalf, whose body…

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Cootamundra. (From Our Correspondent) a Sad Accident

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 24 October 1896 · page 2

A magisterial inquiry wag held to-day before Mr. W. H. Mathews, Coroner, on the body of a, boy about seven years old, a son of J. T. Dillon, a dairyman, of this…

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Prepared for Accidents

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 24 October 1896 · page 4

THE London Spectator is shocked at hearing the report that Dr. Nansen is to be remarried to his wife, from whom (according to the Paris correspondent of the Daily…

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Fatal Accident

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 24 October 1896 · page 6

ON the return home from the picnic on Wednesday evening an accident occurred which cast a gloom over the enjoyments of the day. A little boy (son of Mr. Dillon,…

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A Singular Tragedy. a Woman Drowned in a Sack. Her Husband Arrested

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 27 October 1896 · page 2

A gruesome discovery which points to the recent perpetration of a foul and deliberate murder was made at Dennington, Warrnambool, early on Friday morning. Though the…

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Found Drowned at Wagga. a Magisterial Inquiry

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 3 November 1896 · page 2

Mr. L. A. Fosbery, J.P., held a magisterial inquiry at his office, Fitzmaurice-street, yesterday morning into the cause of death of a man unknown, whose body was found in…

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A Shocking Accident

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 5 November 1896 · page 2

A SHOCKING accident occurred on the Tarcutta-road crossing of the railway line on Friday night. Mrs. Houghton, the gate-keeper, in opening the gates for the Wagga…

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Accident on the Railway Line at Wagga. the Tarcutta Road Crossing

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 5 November 1896 · page 2

The train comprising a number of water tanks en route from Wagga to Junes on Tuesday night, at about 11 o'clock, struck portion of the gates at the Tarcutta-road…

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