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Southern Highlands · Accidents

Accidents, 1907

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Accident to a Race Party

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 1 January 1907 · page 2

What might have proved a serious [?]dent befel a party from Bowral which was proceeding to the Moss Vale races on B[?]ing Day. The party, which was being driven…

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Accidents

Robertson Advocate · Friday 4 January 1907 · page 3

Mr. Len. Turner, a well-known Bowral cyclist, met with a serious accident on Sunday afternoon last. In company with several others he was riding along the Sutton…

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A Girl Drowned

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 5 January 1907 · page 6

At Kenny's Ladies' Baths. St.Kilda, on Tuesday afternoon, Eileen Fitz patrick, aged 15, was drowned. Miss Fitzpatrick was generally supposed to…

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Woman Accidentally Shot

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 5 January 1907 · page 6

A distressing fatality occurred at the Yudna Mutoe copper field in the far north. Mr. W. Burney was trying to sell a small bore rifle to an Aseyrian…

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A Sulky Accident

Robertson Advocate · Friday 11 January 1907 · page 2

Mrs. Cruickshank and Miss Lomak, of Bowral, had a very narrow escape from a serious accident on Tuesday. As they were proceeding in a sulky, in which a child a…

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Accidents. Fall From a Horse

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 15 January 1907 · page 2

Mr. B. S. Pearce, manager of the Wingecarribee Butter Factory, Bowral, received a very severe fall from his horse on Saturday morning. Accompanied by Mr. J. Price,…

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Drowning Fatality

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 3

On Friday afternoon Geo. Nelson, lighthousekeeper at Point Moore, Geraldton (W.A), and bis wife, bad occasion to go into town, leaving their…

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Dynamite Accident

Robertson Advocate · Friday 18 January 1907 · page 3

A serious accident happened at Mogilla on Tuesday. Some children of Mr. Robert Jamieson were playing near a barn, when they picked up three plugs a of dynamits,…

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Fatal Railway Accident

Robertson Advocate · Friday 18 January 1907 · page 2

Mrs. Eather Eyans, wife of Mr. Henry Evans, district fire insurance agent, of Moss Vale, was fatally injured on the [?] line at Guildford on Saturday [?]…

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If You are Drowning? How to Be Saved

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 19 January 1907 · page 6

The president of the Life and Danger Saving Society of Perth (W.A.). Mr. F. Lyon Weiss, is issuing, gratis, practicable advice iu life-saving as a…

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Man and Wife Drowned

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 23 January 1907 · page 6

While on the beach, gathering cockles, on Friday morning at Crescent Head, Kempsey, Mr. and Mrs. James Brenton, of Kempsey, were washed…

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Shocking Tram Fatality

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 26 January 1907 · page 2

Shortly after 11 o'clock on Wednesday a shocking tram accident occurred at Randwick, resulting in the death of a young man named James Ambrose Hibberson…

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Accidents

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 29 January 1907 · page 3

A rather serious accident happened to Mr. T. Morris, jun., of Mittagong, on Saturday morning. He was riding down a steep pinch of the hill, on his way to town, on a bicycle, when…

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A Strange Fatality. HUSBAND & Wife Drowned

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 30 January 1907 · page 6

On Friday morning the bodies of a man and woman were found in Cox's pughole, near the Norwood police station, (S.A) Inquiries from the…

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The Sunken Train. an American Accident. Drowned Like Rats

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 2 February 1907 · page 5

Further information falls to lessen the horror of the Atlantic City disaster, or materially to reduce the death list. At noon to-day fifty-one dead…

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Railway Fatality

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 6 February 1907 · page 6

A minor named Robert Fenwick, aged aged about 33, was killed on the East Greta railway on Friday night at Heddon Greta. Fenwick, who was a…

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Shocking Shooting Accident

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 6 February 1907 · page 6

A terrible accident occurred on Thursday at Bsanfront Castle, Hexham, the residence of Captain J. H. Cuthbert, D.S.O. While a party was…

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Accident to a Mallman

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 9 February 1907 · page 2

A rather serious accident befel the Robertson mailman, Frederick Fairley, on Wednesday might as he was driving the mail from Robertson to Moss Vale. Owing…

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Painful Accident

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 13 February 1907 · page 2

An accident of a serious and painful nature happened to an eleven-year old son of Mrs. A. G. Miller on Friday last. He and two other boys were playing together, when…

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Accidents

Robertson Advocate · Friday 15 February 1907 · page 2

A 13 year old son of Mr. A. F. Johnstone, Burrawang, met with a serious accident on Tuesday evening while out shooting with other boys. It it thought that one of the…

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