The Fatal Accident to a Jockey
The body found on the Essendon railway line (Vic.) on Wednesday night was not that of S. Holman, as was at first stated, but of Francis Holman, his brother, aged 22, also a jockey, who…
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Accidents and Offences
A miner named Josep's Davey had his thigh broken on Thursday at Silverton by a piece of rock becoming dislodged from the stope ia which he was working at the Umberumberka Mine…
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A FATAL accident of a most peculiar kind, by which an infant child named John Macdermot Cardiff lost his life, occurred on Tuesday evening. The…
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Junes, Friday. -- On Wednesday afternoon Hillie Stephenson, a little girl, aged six, was attending to a saucepan on a fire outside the house when her clothes ignited. Her screams…
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ADELAIDE, Friday. -- At North-west Bend today three ladies, Mrs. Schell, Miss Schell and Miss Hora, were drowned while bathing. The first- named was a Miss Horn and was married four…
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ON Saturday last an old man named Robert White was found drowned in a waterhole at Auburn. On the following day Mr. R. H. Matthews, J. P. (acting on behalf of Mr. J. E…
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A disastrous collision has taken place between two steamers in the Firth of Forth. The details of the collision are not yet to hand, but it is known, that 13 lives…
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A terrible accident occurred this afternoon at Bryan's Creek, near Morgan, to a picnic party. Four ladies of the party went bathing in the creek and fell into a deep hole. None of them could…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Clyde Fatality. to the Editor of This Daily Telegraph
Sir, -- By your kind permission I ask a small space in your valuable and widely-circulated paper to draw attention not exactly to the fatal accident that occurred at Clyde platform on…
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What might have been a fatal accident occurred on Wednesday last. It appears Mr. G. R. Dibb's buggy was being driven by the Misses Dibb[?] to Penrith and when about midway on the Victoria…
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An inquest held on Mr. Spokes, who was found dead in a water-barrel at Norwood, S.A., resulted in a verdict of accidental drowning. The house of James Nicholls, at Phillip's Flat…
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MR. Hugh Craino Kelly, the junior member for the Wooroora electorate, South Australia, was crossing the railway sear Port; Wakefield when his horse shied at a bullock. The reins broke,…
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William Keep, a laborer, 33 years of age, residing at Belmont-street, St. Peters, while at work on tho Hunter River Company's Wharf yesterday, was hoisting a bale of hay on to a…
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Mr. Elliott, the coroner, held a magisterial inquiry touching the death of Millie Stephenson, aged 6, who was burnt to death. Ada Borland, who lived next door, deposed that she heard a scream,…
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The mail coach this morning capsized between here and Armidale. Mr. W. O'Monda, a passenger, was severely bruised and shaken. He came back to Hillgrove…
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AN inquest was held at the White Horse Hotel on 10th instant, before Mr. R. H. Mathews, J.P., touching the death of William Reeves, who was fatally injured at Clyde on…
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ADRALAID[?], Sunday.--In connection with the sad drowning fatality at Morgan on Friday it appears that the day being very warm the unfortunate women (Mrs. and Miss .Schell and…
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Early on Saturday morning the dead body of a man named John Shaw was discovered in the waters of Darling Harbour, by an Italian fisherman. The police were communicated with, and upon the body…
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At the Newcastle Police Court, on Saturday, Joseph Weir was fined £10 for assaulting Sergeant Thompson, £1 for damaging property in the lockup, and 7s for damage to the Yacht Club…
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