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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1905

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Playing at "Buffalo Bill." a Girl Accidentally Shot

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 February 1905 · page 7

A shooting accident occurred in Oxford-street shortly after. 9 o'clock last night, when Annie. M'Glynn (16) residing in Sutherland-street, Paddinglon, was wounded in the head just below the…

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Found Drowned

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 February 1905 · page 11

The body of Edward Leavers, aged 73, was found on Thursday evening in Lane Cove River, near Longueville wharf. Deceased formerly resided with his wife and family in…

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A Strange Fatality

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 February 1905 · page 10

A child named Daniel Olsen, aged three years and 11 months, lately residing with its parents at 201 Evans-street, Balmain, died yesterday, after having drunk about half a bottle of spirits…

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Mysterious Drowning. In the Lane Cove River

The Australian Star · Saturday 4 February 1905 · page 11

The Acting City Coroner, Mr. W. Clarke, made inquiry into the drowning of Edward Leavers, whose body was found in the Lane [?]ove River at Longueville…

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Fatality at a Picnic. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 February 1905 · page 11

Perey Cooke, aged 14, met with a sudden death whilst picnicking at Eurobin Falls near Bright. The boy while playing at the top of the Coseade Falls slipped, and, rolling over…

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A Sad Fatality. London, Feb. 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 February 1905 · page 11

While riding in a race in Cannes, France, yesterday, a jockey named Flint, turning towards his wife and child, struck the winning post, and was killed…

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Drowned in Lane Cove. the Worries of an Old Man

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 February 1905 · page 11

The Acting City Coroner held an inquest yesterday on the body of a bricklayer named Edward Leavers, who was found drowned in the harbor, near Woolwich, on Thursday night. Deceased…

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Train Smashes a Waggon. Boy Killed and Another Injured. Remarkable and Pathetic Mistake

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 February 1905 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Friday. -- A special train this afternoon, nearing Bet Bet station, at which it was not intended to stop, crashed into a covered in waggonette. One of the occupants. R[?]bar…

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Accident in a Foundry

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 February 1905 · page 11

Durne Graves, a fitter, employed at the iron foundry and engineering works of Messrs. G. and C. Hoskins, Wattle-street, while attending to a drilling machine yesterday got his…

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Shooting Accident. Dungog

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 February 1905 · page 11

Roland Robson, a young man, while out shooting this morning, was resting the gun on the ground, with his left hand on the top of the barrel, when the weapon…

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"Buffalo Bill" Accident. Annie M'glynn Died Last Night

Sunday Times · Sunday 5 February 1905 · page 5

A girl named Annie M'Glynn, aged 16, who was playing a game called "Buffalo Bill" with two boys of her own age at her home in Sutherland-street, Paddington, on…

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The Week's Miscellany: a Compilation of the News of the World. Russo-jap War. Great Battle on the Hun-ho. Terrible Losses on Both Sides—Russian Casualties about 40,000, Japs 7000—Kuropatkin Injured

Sunday Times · Sunday 5 February 1905 · page 8

GREAT BATTLE ON THE HUN-HO—TREMENDOUS LOSSES ON BOTH SIDES. Severe fighting took place along the line of the Hun-ho on Saturday, Saturday night, and Sunday between the armies of General Kuronatkin and…

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Drowning Fatality

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 February 1905 · page 7

Percy Bock, a young man employed as a runner in the City Hotel, went up the river in a boat at 11 o'clock last night with two men fishing. They anchored abreast of No…

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Drowned While Fishing

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 February 1905 · page 6

Three men, two of whom were Henry Parker, of 96 King-street, Newcastle, and Percy Beck, a runner employed at M'Connell's Hotel in the same street, went out fishing in a small boat on Saturday night. They…

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A Girl Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 February 1905 · page 6

Nine State school teachers, all girls, had a picnic at Caliban Falls, near Castlemaine, on Saturday. Miss Edith Mary Evans, daughter of an engineer at Castlemaine, went away from…

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Injured While Fishing

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 February 1905 · page 6

While fishing off the rocks at Longnose Point, on Saturday, a laborer named Frederick M'Intosh (53), residing at 34 Church-street, Balmain, slipped, and fractured his thigh. He was…

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Fatality on the Railway. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 February 1905 · page 8

A fatal railway accident happened at Maryborough on Friday. Harold Hornsby, aged 17, accompanied by Reba Body, aged 19, was driving a waggonette drawn by a pair of horses…

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PLAYING " Buffalo Bill." Boys and Firearms. the Oxford-street Fatality

The Australian Star · Monday 6 February 1905 · page 5

The shooting misadventure Which occurred in Oxford-street, Paddlngton, on Thursday night while some boys were playing at "Buffalo Bill," and of which a 16-year-old…

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Bricklayer's Accidental Death

Evening News · Monday 6 February 1905 · page 5

The Acting City Coroner (Mr. Wm. Clarke) held an inquest to-day into the death of George Vivian Moore, a bricklayers' labourer, who was killed at the Ultimo Power House on Friday. He…

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Casualties and Fatalities. a Fatal Shooting Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 February 1905 · page 8

Annie M'Glynn, the girl who was accidentally shot by a boy in Oxford-street, Paddington, on Thursday evening, died in St. Vincent's Hospital at 11.30 p.m. on Saturday,…

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