Fatalities and Accidents. Suicide of a Policeman
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 March 1906 · page 10
ALBURY, Friday.--Frederick W. Bulmer, Officer in charge of the Daysdale police station and acting Clerk of Petty Sessions, was found dead in bed yesterday. An inquiry was held,…
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The Mosman Mail · Saturday 10 March 1906 · page 6
Also in Mosman, Neutral and Middle Harbour Resident
A tram was derailed near the quarry in the Spit Road last Sunday afternoon. The front of the car was badly smashed but no one was…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 March 1906 · page 12
A lad named Saddler was brought to the hospital on Wednesday. He had been minding horses at Boolcarrol, and picked up a pea rifle to shoot a rabbit, when the weapon went…
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The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 10 March 1906 · page 4
A shocking fatality occurred at Meadowbank about 2 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon the victim being Thomas Coghlan, a widower, and by occupation a…
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Sunday Times · Sunday 11 March 1906 · page 5
About 9 o'clock last night an unknown man, aged about 60, was knocked down by a tram in George-street, near Hay-street. The Civil Ambulance removed the man to…
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The Sunday Sun · Sunday 11 March 1906 · page 1
A series of tram accidents occurred last night, and one man named George Watson, aged 40, residing at La Perouse, lost his life. While a La Perouse tram was coming into…
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Evening News · Monday 12 March 1906 · page 5
Harry Hanley, 59, a bookkeeper, was knocked down by a tram in George-street, near Goulburn-street, on Saturday night, and sustained a fracture of the skull, from which he…
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 March 1906 · page 6
KALGOORLIE, Sunday.--An accident took place on Saturday morning, when a miner named Bell narrowly escaped losing his life. It seems Bell was climbing a ladder in a chute, when…
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 March 1906 · page 5
MELBOURNE, Sunday.--At Auburn to-day, Albert Carroll, aged 15 years, was playing with two little boys in a stormwater channel about 2ft wide by 6ft. deep. They were on a small…
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Evening News · Monday 12 March 1906 · page 2
A shocking tramway fatality occurred at Long Bay on Saturday night, when a labourer named George Henley, 34, was run over and fatally injured…
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 March 1906 · page 5
LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--A number of the fishermen's huts on the Lofoden Islands, on the north- west coast of Norway, have been buried under avalanches. Twenty…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 March 1906 · page 8
Three boys were playing in the Hawthorn main drain at Auburn this afternoon. The drain is about 15ft wide and 6ft deep. The water then was fairly low, but a heavy…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 March 1906 · page 8
Harry Hanley, 59, a bookkeeper at the Rookwood Asylum, was knocked down by a tram in George-street, near Hay-street, on Saturday night. He was taken by the Civil…
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 March 1906 · page 6
BROKEN- HILL, Sunday.--At a meeting of the A. M. A. Investigation committee, held the other evening, it was resolved that the various mines committees be approached with a view to…
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 March 1906 · page 4
The lamentable colliery disasters which this State has experienced, notably at Bulli in 1887 and at Mount Kembla in 1902, will predispose the community to sympathise…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 March 1906 · page 5
In regard to the rescue of a man named Herbert Edwards, who fell from a boat off Fort Macquare on Sunday afternoon. N. Hodgson of 82 Pitt-street, Sydney, stated last…
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The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 March 1906 · page 5
LONDON. Monday.--A serious railway collision has occurred at Godsend,. Ohio (U.S.A.). As the result of the impact the carriages were fired…
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The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 March 1906 · page 6
MUDGEE, Monday.--A little girl named Berry, aged 16 months, was drowned in a waterhole, near her parents' residence, at Redbank a mile from Mudgee, this afternoon…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 March 1906 · page 5
While driving a horse attached to one of M'Mahon's vechicles yesterday morning. Daniel Skully, an elderly man, was seized with a fit, and fell fiom the lorry on to the roadway…
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