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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1927

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Crew Drowned British Schooner Wrecked Vancouver, Jan. 4

The Daily Express · Thursday 6 January 1927 · page 2

A message from Mexic[?] City states that the captain and six of the crew were drowned when the British schooner C[?]men, enroute from…

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Drowned In Domain Baths Note Ok Dead Man's Coat Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 6 January 1927 · page 6

A body which was identified as that of Henry James, aged 35 years, of Glebe, was recovered from the Domain , free baths this morning…

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Junee Accidents

The Daily Express · Thursday 6 January 1927 · page 2

A Utile girl,Isabel Cox. aged 11 years. daughter of Mr. William Cox, Wagga was playing at a chaffcutter on the farm of her aunt, Mrs…

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Rescued From Drowning

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 1

While swimming in the Murrumbidgee River at Darlington Point on Sunday Mrs. J. McKenzie got into difficulty in a whirl pool. Mr. Arnold…

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Sed Fatality. Coolamon Soy Killed at Junee

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 4

Quite a [?]loom was cast over the holidays in Coolamon by the tragic death at Junee of C[?]ruce bB[?]wis, the six-year-old now of…

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A Brisbane Fatality Man Gives Himself Up Brisbane

The Daily Express · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 2

George Ward, 29, a laborer, was charged to-day with the wi[?]ful murder of William Kebry. otherwise known as “Spider Raper.”…

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Car and Tram Collide. Two Men Injured. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 2

Owing to the sudden application of brakes, a motor car skidded on a wet roadway and collided with a cable tram at Carlton last night. Two persons…

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Motor Accident at Tumut

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 3

Yet another motor vehicle accident, in which one of the parties figuring in the recent serious motor car collision on Blowering Road…

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Holiday Accidents Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 2

The police traffic bulletin, issued today, referring to the number of holiday accidents, deplores the fact that the "safety first" rules have been ignored…

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Peculiar Accident on Kensington Racecourse Sydney

The Daily Express · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 4

A filly which took charge of her rider at Kensington racecourse this morning dashed into a narrow space where the two tracks meet, and…

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Lockhart Drowning Case

The Daily Express · Saturday 8 January 1927 · page 2

Yesterday morning the Wagga District Ambulance received a call to Lockhart to transport a man suffering from pneumon[?] to Wagga…

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Boy Injured

The Daily Express · Saturday 8 January 1927 · page 2

While playing at a cottage in course of creation in Johnston Street, opposite the Cathedral, yesterday, Richard Kenyon, a boy residing in…

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Motor Fatality Knocked Down by Car Sydney

The Daily Express · Saturday 8 January 1927 · page 2

William Fale[?] was knocked down by a motor car at Letch[?] last night. He [?] a [?] [?]tracture of the skull which [?]…

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Smash at Cycle Sports Two Fitzgeralds Injured

The Daily Express · Saturday 8 January 1927 · page 2

A smash occurred at the bicycle sports at the Wagga cricket ground last night as a result of which the two Fitzgeralds, the Sydney crack…

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Lockhart Tragedy.s Man Drowned in DAMs Lock Hart, Friday.s

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 8 January 1927 · page 4

Robert Moore, aged 41 years, [?] worker, was to-day found in a dam about one [?] from Lockhart. [?] or so previously he had been pro-…

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Dectective Injured Fight with Shop-breaker a Desperate Struggle Melbourne

The Daily Express · Saturday 8 January 1927 · page 2

In a desperate encounter with a suspected shop-breaker whom he surprised in the shop of Stanley McKinnon, tobacconist, at the corner of…

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S.A. Premier’s Accident Fingers [?]Ambed in Lift Adelaide

The Daily Express · Saturday 8 January 1927 · page 8

The Premier. Mr. Hill, had the top of one of his fingers nearly severed and another finger crushed by a lift at the Treasury building to-day…

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Level Crossing Accident Men Have Lucky Escape Leeton

The Daily Express · Saturday 8 January 1927 · page 2

Two young men, Messrs. J. McGlynn and F. Hancock, had an extraordinary escape from serious injury in a level crossing accident…

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Motor Collision Car and Cycle Two Persons Injured

The Daily Express · Monday 10 January 1927 · page 2

The treadherous corner at the junction of ,the Urana and Albury Roads, at the Showground corner, was the scene yesterday of a…

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Canoe Capsized Two Saved From Drowning Melbourne

The Daily Express · Monday 10 January 1927 · page 1

After a desperate struggle in the dark, a young man succeeded in rescuing his two companions, one of whom was a cripple, when a canoe…

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