Fatalities and Accidents. Accidentally Shot
Private Augustus Lewis, of the 12th Reinforcements of 2nd Battalion, at Liverpool Encampment, was cleaning a revolver on New Year's Day, when a shot exploded, the bullet…
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Double Fatality. Two Sydney Girls Drowned
NARRANDERA, Monday.--A sad double drowning fatality occurred in the Murrumbidgee River yesterday. The victims were Ivy Kippen, aged 19 years, and Pauline Boyton,…
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A double drowning [?]…
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A double drowning accident occurred here yesterday morning, when two young girls named Ivy Kippen, aged 19 years, and Pauline Boyton, 14½, lost their lives at The Oaks…
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A motor car accident occurred in Saturday afternoon between, Blackheath and Mount Victoria. A 20-h.p. car, the property of the Katoomba Motor Garage Company, was…
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Charles O'Conner, 14, who lived at Green's road, Paddington, stuck his head on the bottom while diving at Little Cookee He was conveyed by the Coogee Ambulance to St…
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COFF'S HARBOR. Monday.--A murderous assault, as a result of which Albert Cooper iles in the hospital at Coff's Harbor, was committed at Karangi, five miles from here, on…
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The Australian troopship Geelong has been sunk in the Mediterranean by collision with an Admiralty storeship…
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On Saturday evening Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Webber and their two children were driving home to Apsley from Edenhope when the horse bolted and dashed into a tree. All were…
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The City Coroner's report for last year shows that 20 people lost their lives in tram accidents and eight in train accidents Motor car and cycle accidents were responsible for…
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Robert Estel, aged 60, a brother of the Minister for Labor and Industry, was run down and killed by a train on the Illawarra line last night…
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A verdict of suicide was returned by the City Coroner yesterday in the inquiry concerning the death of John Thomas Lacey (26), bootmaker, who died at Sydney Hospital on…
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While walking along the railway line from the Eveleigh workshops, where he was employed as a cleaner, in the direction of Erskineville Station, at about 7 o'clock on…
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A motor-car accident occurred on Saturday afternoon between Blackheath and Mount Victoria. A [?] car, the property of the Katoomba Motor Garage…
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At Narrandera on Monday, a double drowning accident occurred, when two young girls named Ivy Kippen, aged 19 years, and Pauline Boyton 1-1½, lost their…
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Patrick Kennedy was drowned in a dam at Culcairn on Wednesday. He started to swim across the dam with a companion, but when his mate reached the other side…
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Two Jockeys, Neil Hobbs, 16, living with Mr. M'Keown, Doncaster-avenue, Kensington, and Thomas Cook, 14, living with Mr. H. Miller, Canterbury, were thrown from their…
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LONDON, Tuesday.--The steamer Geelong, a P. and O. branch liner doing service as a transport, was sunk in the Mediterranean through collision with an Admiralty store ship…
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It is officially announced that the P. and O. Company's steamer Geelong has been sunk in the Mediterranean by a collision with an Admiralty storeship. There was…
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