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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1930

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Boy Knocked Down Baylis Street Accident in Serious Condition

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 14 February 1930 · page 5

Running out into the traffic in Baylis-st., Wagga, on Saturday afternoon last, Frank Ritzau, aged 8 years, was knocked down by a motor…

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Accidental Death Double Drowning Tragedy Inquiry at Wagga

The Daily Express · Saturday 15 February 1930 · page 2

The Coroner, Mr. H. Oates, J.P., yesterday returned a verdict of accidental death by drowning in the inquest into the cause of death of…

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Bricklayer Injured

The Daily Express · Saturday 15 February 1930 · page 2

Whilst working on the additions to the Riverine club yesterday morning, W. Joiner, of Trail street, a bricklayer, was hit on the head by a brick…

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Double Drowning Coroner's Inquest Eye-witness' Story Verdict Of Accidental Death

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 15 February 1930 · page 2

The district coroner, Mr. Hugh Oates, yesterday held an inquest into the deaths of Albert Edward Langthorne and Ernst Edward Altus, who were…

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Collision in Baylis Street

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 15 February 1930 · page 4

Two motor care, one driven by Mr. W. T. Berry, secretary of the Murrumbidgee Co-operative Dairy Co. Ltd., and the other by Mr. K. Whiticker of the…

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Fatality at Goulburn Goulburn

Daily Advertiser · Monday 17 February 1930 · page 5

Mrs. Dominic and Edward Dominic sustained compound fractures of the legs and other injuries when they were knocked down by a car while…

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Car Overturns Four Injured Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 17 February 1930 · page 5

Four persons were injured when a motor car fell 40 feet over a steep embankment on the Pittwater Road near Balg[?] this afternoon. The car…

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Head-on Collision One Man Killed Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 17 February 1930 · page 5

Two motor car collided head-on in Whitehorse Road, Mitcham, to-day, with the result that Gordon Olsen, aged 47 years, was thrown on to the road. His…

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Suburban Ruffians Youth Critically Injured Sydney

The Daily Express · Monday 17 February 1930 · page 2

Leslie Barney, 16, of Redfern, was so seriously injured in an attack by members of the "Snail gang" in Abercrombie Street, Redfern, last…

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Gang Outrage Youth Seriously Injured Redfern Assault Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 17 February 1930 · page 1

Leslie Barney, aged 16 years, of Redfern, was so seriously injured in an attack by members of the "Snail Gang" in Abercrombie Street. Redfern, last…

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Level Crossing Swash Train Crashes Into Cas Five Killed; Four Injured Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 17 February 1930 · page 3

Five persons were killed and four injured when a train travelling from Geelong to Melbourne struck a motor car, in which were 10 persons, to-night…

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Motor Accidents Motor Cycle Hits Sulky Two Men impaled Shocking Injuries Brisbane

Daily Advertiser · Monday 17 February 1930 · page 5

When a motor cycle and a sulky col[?] at Townsville last night Henry Lawrence, aged 30 years, the driver of the motor cycle, was impaled through…

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Sad Drowning Fatality at Merungle Hill

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 18 February 1930 · page 2

A sad drowinng fatality occurred at Merungle Hill on Sunday evening when Leonard John Maley, the bonny fourteen months old baby son of…

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Motor Car Collision

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 18 February 1930 · page 4

About dusk on Thursday, Mr. Thos. McAuliffe, shortly after rounding the Railway Hotel corner into Brookong Street in his car, collided with a…

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No Lights Junee Road Collision

The Daily Express · Tuesday 18 February 1930 · page 2

As a result of a collision, on the Junee Road, North Wagga, on the night of January 26, between a motor car and motor cycle, neither of which…

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Gored by Bull Dairyman Injured Wollongong

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 February 1930 · page 2

James Guest, aged 37 years, is dairyman, was seriously injured to-day when gored by a bull. He was taking a short cut through a paddock when the…

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Dived Into River Head Wedged Between Rocks Miner Drowned Bathurst

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 February 1930 · page 6

After diving, into the Fish River on Saturday, James Smith, aged 24 years, a miner, did not re-appear, and although his mates dr[?] for him, his…

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Knocked Down by Car Man Fatally Injured Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 February 1930 · page 1

William Alfred Graves, aged 60 years, of South Kensington, was fatally injured this afternoon. He received a fractured skull through being knocked…

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Men Bailed Up One Seriously Injured Two Men Remanded Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 February 1930 · page 1

At the Central Court to day, Victor Cotter and James Freeman were charged with having by force and me[?] demanded money from Lest[?] Barney…

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Tram Driver Injured Half-buried in Ice Collission at Redfern Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 February 1930 · page 1

Stanley New, a tram driver, narrowly escaped death to-day when a lorry laden with ice came into collision With the train he was driving at Redfern…

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