Shocking and Fatal Accident
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 February 1881 · page 3
About a quarter past 8 o'clock yesterday morning Mr. William Langford, the well-known yacht-builder, of North Shore, met his death in a manner as unexpected as it was paiuful. It seems that he was accustomed to have the…
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The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 February 1881 · page 5
The public were shocked yesterday by a rumour to the effect that Mr. William Langford, the well-known yacht and boat builder, had met his death from injuries at a sawmill. The rumour proved but too true…
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Sydney Punch · Saturday 19 February 1881 · page 3
He was cut short on Friday evening by the Speaker…
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The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Monday 21 February 1881 · page 3
A remarkable incident in connection with a coroner's inquest occurred last week at Albury The coroner held an inquiry there touching the death of Edward John Cunningham, a resident of…
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Evening News · Monday 21 February 1881 · page 2
The body of the man who was found drowned in the river yesterday is not that of Benjamin John-stone, as was at first supposed. The inquest has just concluded, and the jury returned a verdict of…
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The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Monday 21 February 1881 · page 3
An inquest was held by the city coroner, Mr. H. Shiell, J.P., at the Observer Tavern, Lower George-street, on Saturday morning, on the body of a woman named Mary Ann Cooke, which was found…
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Evening News · Tuesday 22 February 1881 · page 4
ON Tuesday evening, December 21, a collision look place at Leed6 Junction, about half a mile from Leeds. The accident (as reported by the MANCHESTER TIMES) occurred to the Midland…
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Evening News · Wednesday 23 February 1881 · page 2
An inquest was held yesterday on the body of a man named Gorman, who with a mate had started homewards on the same horse at a late hour on Sunday night, after having been drinking freely…
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Evening News · Wednesday 23 February 1881 · page 2
Sergeant Kenny has reported to the City Coroner, that about half-past 10 yesterday morning, Ann Murray, 48 years of age, a widow, residing at 8. Unwin-street, Miller's Point, felt downstairs, and…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 February 1881 · page 7
Mr. William Douglass, a well-known commission agent of Sydney, dropped dead in the train at Granville, on February 16, while on route for Sydney. He was apparently perfectly well on departing from Parramatta, having been…
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The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Thursday 24 February 1881 · page 4
A child named Herbert Baker, whilst playing in Kent-street, was run over by a trolly and killed. The driver of the trolly was arrested, but was discharged by the coroner's court…
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Evening News · Friday 25 February 1881 · page 2
LONDON, February 24.—The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone has sustained an accident that will, it is believed, prevent him from appearing in public for several…
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Evening News · Saturday 26 February 1881 · page 7
Great excitement existed throughout Hereford-shire on January 8 when it became generally known that Miss Fanny Russell, youngest! daughter of the late Captain Russell, R.N., and…
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Evening News · Saturday 26 February 1881 · page 4
The tramway guard, John Kirkpatrick, who was taken to the Infirmary on the 21st instant with in-' juries to his thigh, caused by the pole of a 'bus run- , ning into him, died in that institution last night…
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Evening News · Saturday 26 February 1881 · page 4
James Walsh, aged 79, formerly a butcher at Maitland, was knocked down yesterday by a waggonette, near Cottage Bridge, and frightfully injured. He is now at the hospital in a precarious…
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Evening News · Saturday 26 February 1881 · page 4
An accident, with a fatal result, occurred this morning at the Soman Catholic Cathedral, in College street. A. labourer named Edward Edwards, residing at North Shore, and employed at the…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 February 1881 · page 5
A painful and somewhat serious accident befel Mr. Gladstone yesterday. On his return from a drive, as the Premier was in the act of alighting from his carriage, his boot…
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The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 26 February 1881 · page 5
A painful and somewhat serious accident befel Mr. Gladstone yesterday. On his return from a drive as the Premier was in the act of alighting from his carriage his boot caught, and…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 February 1881 · page 24
OUR', roaders will learn with regret of a dreadful fatal accident which befel Mr. William Langford, the well-known boat and yacht builder, last Friday, at Pyrmont. Mr. Langford's residence and work…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 February 1881 · page 41
On Tuesday, December 21, a railway accident, resulting in instant death of two men and injury to several others, occurred on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway at Sough Tunnel, near…
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