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Accidents, 1932

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Sagacity of Dog Aid for Injured Owner Adelaide

Daily Advertiser · Friday 15 January 1932 · page 2

When John Noble was pinned down by a large tree which fell on his tent on the banks of the Murray River near the New South Wales border [?]…

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Metal Worker's Death Bridge Injured in Fight Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 15 January 1932 · page 1

Gorge Donnison, aged 31 years, a metal worker, who was injured in a fight at Miranda, near Sutherland, last night, died this morning. A…

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Accidental Death Yarragundry Drowning Inquest on Keith Andrew

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 16 January 1932 · page 11

The Coroner (Mr. Hugh Gates) on Tuesday conducted an inquest at Wagga concerning the death of Keith Roy Andrew, aged 16 years, who…

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Motor Fatality Inquest

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 16 January 1932 · page 4

The inquest concerning the death of Mr. Charles James Clout, who was pinned beneath a motor car when it overturned on the Howlong road on…

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Drowned In Reservoir Cootamundra Tragedy

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 16 January 1932 · page 18

The body of Mrs. Julia Rankin, wife of Mr. George Rankin, manager of the Cootamundra branch of the Commercial Bank of Sydney, was…

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Aged Woman Found Injured in Bed

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 16 January 1932 · page 8

When Walter Watson, of Albury, arrived home after midnight on Sunday he found his bedridden mother, aged 78 years, suffering from…

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Unusual Accident

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 16 January 1932 · page 2

Mr. J. Manning, a farmer, of Millwood, was admitted to a Wagga private hospital yesterday, as the result of an unusual accident. he…

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Youth Drowned Calls for Help Thought a Joke Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 18 January 1932 · page 2

Stanley Goodwin, aged 18 years, of Newton, was drowned in the liver at National Park this afternoon. Goodw in was swimming with…

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Motor Car in Flames Driver Injured WAGGA

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 18 January 1932 · page 1

Alexander Thompson, a commercial traveller, of Sefton, near Sydney, and a man named Wilson, of Sydney, had a narrow escape from death…

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Man Injured Attacked with Axe Mother Charged Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 18 January 1932 · page 2

Henry Gordan, aged 22 years was adjusted to the Melbourne Hospital in a critical last night suffering from a fractured skull. He…

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Truck Over Foot Shunter Injured Boot Caught in Points GOULBURN

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 18 January 1932 · page 1
Also in Daily Advertiser

Held prisoner through the heel of his boot becoming jambed in the points in the railway yards on Friday night, Ernest Campbell, 41,…

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Dapto Murder Woman Killed with Axe Son Also Injured Husband Arrested SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 18 January 1932 · page 1
Also in Daily Advertiser

MRS. LOUISA Maud Shelden, 47, wife of the stationmaster at Dapto, received fatal injuries on Saturday afternoon, when she was…

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Thrilling Police Chase Patrol Car and Lorry Collide Man Killed; Constable Injured Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 18 January 1932 · page 2
Also in Cootamundra Herald

A thrilling chase by a police motor patrol after a stolen motor car ended tragically last night when the patrol car collided with a motor van…

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Drowning Mishap at Cootamundra

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 19 January 1932 · page 2

An inquest was concluded at Cootamundra yesterday into the death of Mrs. Julia Rankin, wife of Mr. George Rankin, manager of the Cootamundra…

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Russian Train Disaster Sixty-eight Killed; 138 Injured Collision Near Moscow Moscow

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 19 January 1932 · page 1

News has just been released of a railway disaster in which 68 persons were killed and 130 injured near Moscow on the evening of January 2…

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Motor Car in Flames Driver Injured

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 19 January 1932 · page 1

Alexander Thompson, a commercial traveller, of Sefton, near Sydney, and a man named Wilson, of Sydney, had a narrow escape from death on…

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Ovens River Tragedy Three Girls Drowned Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 19 January 1932 · page 2

A report from Yarrawonga states that two girls who fell from a log on which they were seated, and a young woman who went to their rescue in the…

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