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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1910

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Burning Fatality Mrs. Days Death. Singular Circumstances. Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 5 March 1910 · page 2

An examination of the body of Mrs. Day, who wan fatally burned at West Melbourne, showed that her throat had been cut. The authorities believe she…

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Accident to Youth. Condition Critical Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 5 March 1910 · page 2

Whilst skimming boiling fat at Anglis and Co's. freezing works a youth named Thomas Cash aged 14, fell into the vessel. His condition is considered…

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Fatal Affray at Yass. Blacks and Boxers Fight, Pugilist Badly Injured. YASS

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 8 March 1910 · page 2

AN affray occurred on the showground last night, when Joseph fullerion, or Fullbrook, aged 29, a native of wagga, was killed. "Snowy" Flynn, a…

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Fatal Affray at Yass. Blacks and Boxebs Fight. Pugilist Badly Injured. Yass

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 8 March 1910 · page 4

An affruy occurred on the Showground last night, when Joseph Ful lerton, or Fullbrook, aged 29, a native of Wagga, was killed. "Snowy"…

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Accident

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 8 March 1910 · page 2

While playing in the cricket match, Tumut v Lacmalac, at Tumut on Saturday, Mr. E. F. Welsh, of the Commercial Bank, and Secretary of…

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Plucky Shunter Injured

The Worker · Thursday 10 March 1910 · page 19

On the night of the 2nd inst. a young woman attempted to board a train moving out from Parramatta station. She hung on to a carriage and was in great…

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Collision in Harbor a Collier Sunk. Seaman Missing

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 10 March 1910 · page 2

One of the most serious harbour collisions for some years past occurred at about a quarter-past 9 on Wednesday night, immediately abreast of…

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Boxing Fatality

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 12 March 1910 · page 2

A verdict of accidental death was returned at the inquest concerning the death of Watson in the boxing contest in London…

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Aviator Injured

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 12 March 1910 · page 2

Loraine, the well-known European aviator, met with an accident in a [?]eriot aeroplane at Pan, and it is fa[?]ned that he is fatally injured…

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Injured by Machinery. COOLAMON

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 12 March 1910 · page 2

Edward Smith was brought to Coolamon suffering from bruises on the face, concussion of the brain, and shock. He was manager of a…

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Motor Car Fatality. a Consul Killed. Companions Injured. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 15 March 1910 · page 2

Senor Geiger, Consul for the Argentine at Munich, Bavaria, has been killed by his automobile crashing into a tree. Hit wife, and the Consul for Paraguay, and…

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Bathing Fatality. a Learner's Death. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 15 March 1910 · page 2

While learning to swim at the Sobraon baths, Cockatoo Island, this morning, Gordon sheriff, aged 25, plumber's mate on board H.M.S. Pioneer, drowned…

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Pea Rifle Fatality. Boy Kills Boy. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 15 March 1910 · page 2

Henry Greenslade, aped 14 years, who was accidentally shot in the side with a pea rifle by another boy at North Botany yesterday, died this…

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School Master's Carelessness. Mulcted in Heavy Damages. Boy's Eye Injured. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 15 March 1910 · page 3

For injuries to an oye caused by sulphuric acid carelessly need owing to the carelessness of the master at Marrickville public school, a jury to-day…

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Boys and Fire-arms. a Fatal Accident. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 15 March 1910 · page 2

Henry Roy Greenslade, aged 14, who was accidentally shot by another boy named James Toff at North Botany yesterday died this morning. The boys…

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Pea Rifle Fatality

The Worker · Thursday 17 March 1910 · page 19

While out shooting in a paddock at Botany on Sunday morning, in company with a lad named James Taff, Roy Greenslade received a pea-rifle bullet in the…

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Shooting Fatality. a Dentist Killed. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 17 March 1910 · page 2

Reginald Allan Hornsey, a dentist, was found in the garden at his residence at Gulgong, with a bullet, wound behind the right ear, and died without…

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German Ironworkers. Strike for Half Holiday. Collision with Police. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 17 March 1910 · page 2

Eighty per cent, of the workmen at Krupp's Germania yard at Kiel have struck for a half holiday, and as a protest against the Prussian…

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Street Accidents

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 17 March 1910 · page 2

There was considerable excitement in the main street just before 9 o'clock last night. The driver of Kenyon's lorry was in the Railway Hotel for a…

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A Golf Accident. Doctor Strikes a Lady. Wellington

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 17 March 1910 · page 4

In the Supreme Court to-day the hearing was commenced of a case in which Frank Leckie and his wife, Irene leckie, claim £776 damages from Dr…

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