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Southern Highlands · Accidents

Accidents, 1907

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A Sad Fatality

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 16 February 1907 · page 2

A fatal accident happened on Tuesday last to an old and respected resident of the Crook, well district, Mr. W. Kennedy, of Kialls. He went, with a horse and dray, for a load of…

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Pea Rifle Accidents

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 20 February 1907 · page 6

Miss Nellie M'Cue, daughter of Mr. M'Cue, of Grenfell, was shooting rabbits on Friday with a pea rifle, and it is supposed that while she was…

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Fatal Accident near Goulburn Death of Mr. G. BUDGE

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

Mr. George Radge, licensee of the Kenmore Hotel, died at the Goulburn Hospital at a quarter to four on Sunday morning from injuries received by being thrown from his…

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Mother and Child Drowned

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 20 March 1907 · page 2

A sad double fatality was reported by the Newtown police to have taken place at an early hour on Monday at Maris-street, Newtown, where Mrs. Bertha Ann Clorenshaw…

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Casualties and Fatalities. Shocking Fatality

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 3 April 1907 · page 2

A shocking fatality ia reported from Leogaths. T. W. Harrison and Mr. Harrison, his sister in law, were driving home to Dollar from Meeniyan on…

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Fatal Accident at Bowral. Dragged on the Metal

Robertson Advocate · Friday 5 April 1907 · page 2

A serious accident, which has been attended with fatal results, happened to William, the eleven-year-old son of Mr. J. W. Norman, at Bowral on Wednesday…

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A Previous Accident

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 6 April 1907 · page 6

The Alice was a steam launch, and was fitted with good engines, whilst' her furnishings we're on the most up-to-date scale. About four years…

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Fatal Accident at Bowral

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 6 April 1907 · page 2

A serious accident, which has bean attended with fatal results, happened to William, the 11-year-old son of Mr. J. W. Norman, at Bowral on Wednesday morning…

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The Fatal Accident at Bowral

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 9 April 1907 · page 2

The funeral of Master William Leslie Norman, who died at Bowral last week from injuries received through being dragged by a horse, took place on Friday afternoon,…

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Boating Fatality

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 10 April 1907 · page 6

A boating fatality, Attended with the loss of two lives, occurred on Sunday afternoon about three miles off Coogee daring a heavy thunderstorm. The…

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The Drowned

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 10 April 1907 · page 6

Of the two men who were dro[?]ed, Harry Jackson was employed; the Royal Standard Hotel. He was widower, and leaves four children…

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A shooting Gallery Fatality

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 13 April 1907 · page 2

A sad fatality occurred at Rochester (Vic.) on Wednesday at a shooting gallery. A man, who was about to shoot, decided to change the loaded…

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Serious Accident at Mittagong

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 16 April 1907 · page 2

A very serious accident happened to David H[?], a boy of about 10 years of age has Thursday evening, through reed ring a [?] on the for chee, from a horse. The…

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Terrible Mining Accident

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 17 April 1907 · page 3

Early on Saturday afternoon the roof of the new tunnel at the South Clifton Colliery, Scraborough, collapsed, four men, who had been engaged in the…

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Serious Accident

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 17 April 1907 · page 2

On Thursday last a very serious accident befel a boy named David Hines, aged about 10 years, at Mittagong, The little fellow was…

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Boating Party Drowned. Tragic Story by a Sole Survivor

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 20 April 1907 · page 6

Wellington, April 13—The dawn was just coming when the crew of the little scow Ers. timber-laden, from Tair[?] to Auckland, heard an appeal…

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Accident near Cross Roads

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 23 April 1907 · page 2

Mr. Joseph Maxwell, on elderly man, was admitted to the district hospital on the 11th instant suffering from injuries sustained in an accident near Cross Roads on the…

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America's Accidents. a Preacher's Statement

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 24 April 1907 · page 5

A correspondent of the Washington "Evening Star" wrote from New York on 5th January:— "Fifty-seven thousand five hundred…

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Mysterious Fatality

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 8 May 1907 · page 3

A young man was found lying unconscious on the railway, line, near Barnawartha (Albury), on Friday. His skull was fractured, and his face…

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A Strange Fatality. Killed Through a Tobacco Pipe

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 8 May 1907 · page 6

Last Tuesday evening Mr. John Sheridan, licensee of the Moonbi Hotel, near Condobolin, met with a peculiar accident, resulting in his…

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