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Southern Highlands · Accidents

Accidents, 1908

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Motor Car Fatality

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 20 May 1908 · page 5

A fatal motor accident, in which Mr. A Z Clark, a well known mining engineer, was billed, occurred on the Mount Alexander road at Digger's…

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College-street Fatality

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 23 May 1908 · page 4

Mr. Stephen Murphy conducted an inquest on Wednesday into the Circumstances surrounding the death of Henry Welter, 37, lately employed as a groom…

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Serious Riding Accident

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 26 May 1908 · page 2

Fred. Asher, son of Mr. D. Asher, caretaker of Mr. B. M. Csborne's "Hopewood" estate, Bowral, mat with a serious riding accident on Thursday afternoon last. It…

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Serious Riding Accident

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 27 May 1908 · page 5

Fred. Asher, son of Mr. D. Asher, caretaker of Mr. B. M. Osborne's "Hopewood" estate, Bowral, met with a serious riding accident on Thursday…

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A Tragic Accident

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 27 May 1908 · page 3

After facing death scores of times and thrilling vast audiences twice dally by looping the loop in a motor-car, Mrs Mitzel Morok, a pretty woman of 19…

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Driving Accident near Bowral

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 2 June 1908 · page 2

An accident, which might have been attended with much more serious consequences, occurred [?] Bowral on Saturday morning, Mrs. R. H. Roberts, of Roberton Park,…

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Preventing Railway Accidents

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 13 June 1908 · page 2

Mr. James Kriss, a Gundagai blacksmith, has invented an apparatus which he claims will minimise the danger of railway…

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Serious Driving Accident

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 17 June 1908 · page 4

Mr. Robinson Armstrong, accompanied by his wife, her sister in-law (Mrs. Bryant), and child, was on Saturday driving a pair of horses…

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Shooting Accident

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 20 June 1908 · page 2

A serious accident befel Mr. Malcolm Badgery, son of Mr. J. A. Badgery, of "Ivy Hall," Exeter. Mr. Badgery was shooting at a fox…

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Accident

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 24 June 1908 · page 2

At Goulburn on Monday morning a young man named Stanley Cox, employed on the railway, met with a serious accident. While working…

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Terrible Drowning Fatality

Robertson Advocate · Friday 26 June 1908 · page 2

A tragedy, peculiarly pitiful in all its aspects, and which involved the lives of a young mother and her two infant children, happened at Footaoray (Vic.) on…

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Railway Fatality

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 27 June 1908 · page 5

A. E. Brewer, a resident of Strathfield, was killed at Lewisham railway station on Wednesday morning while attempting to alight from a train in…

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A Railway Collision

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 27 June 1908 · page 6

A railway collision with un[?] result was reported from [?] Junction, near Maryborough (Q.) [?] Wednesday morning…

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Mountain Accident

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 27 June 1908 · page 6

The particulars of the accident on the Cambewarra Mountain on Monday of last week, by which two of the Barrengarry Dairy Co.'s horses were…

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Accident

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 30 June 1908 · page 2

Drs. Stevenson and Jones of Moss Vale, met with an accident whilst driving along the Robertson road on Wednesday morning last, but fortunately without any serious…

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A Farmer Injured

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 7 July 1908 · page 2

Near Bembok a on Saturday, a farmer—Albert Rolfe—was engaged in cutting a crop with a mowing machine, when the horses became refractory and refused to pull…

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Train and Coach Collision

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 14 July 1908 · page 3

At the District Court held at Wollongong on Thursday and Friday last, before Acting Judge Edmunds, Phyllis Tindell claimed £400 damages from the Bellambi Coal…

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Accident to a Submarine

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 18 July 1908 · page 4

An accident to a submarine torpedo boat, which almost ended in disaster, occurred on Tuesday. Seven boats were proceeding from Portland to…

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Painful Railway Accident

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 25 July 1908 · page 5

An accident of a serious character occurred on Tuesday night, when the Melbourne express was entering Benalla station. An old lady named…

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Live Wire Fatality

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 29 July 1908 · page 4

Mr. S. Murphy, Acting Sydney city coroner, on Saturday held on inquest on the body of Ah Tew, a Chinese, 28, who was killed at cabinet making works,…

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