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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1920

2,067 stories in Sydney's papers · page 74 of 104

Young Man Injured Collision With Motor Which Did Not Stop

The Sun · Tuesday 5 October 1920 · page 7

A young man named Oscar Alcock, residing at Preston, near Liverpool was riding home last night, about 10.30, when near Casula he collided…

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Woman Injured

The Sun · Tuesday 5 October 1920 · page 7

Mrs. Priscilla Mason, aged 42, of Melford, Chapel-road, Bankstown, was knocked down by a motor car in Oxford-street, near Bourke-street,…

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Country Visitor Injured

Evening News · Tuesday 5 October 1920 · page 7

Alexander Paton, 22, a boundary rider. who is spending a holiday in Sydney. fell down a flight of stairs at the Coffee Palace, where he is staying. In…

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Horse and Motor Collision at Casula

Evening News · Tuesday 5 October 1920 · page 5

Oscar Mcock of Preston, Liverpool was puting a horse along a road in Casnia, inst night, when a motor car collected with the home…

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Ferry Collision Kirawa and Kurraba Witness Treated as Hostile

The Sun · Tuesday 5 October 1920 · page 7

An unusual course was taken in a case at the Central Police Court today. when Mr. Kidston, of the Crown Law Office, asked Mr. Giles Shaw,…

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Picnic Smash. Lorry Over Bank. Four Persons Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 October 1920 · page 5

On the Woronora Road, Sutherland, yesterday, a motor lorry containing a picnic party, numbering 21, jumped over the edge of the road, falling about 60ft. Luckily, only four…

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Fall of 50 Feet King-street Fatality Death of Mrs. Ashenden an Open Verdict

The Sun · Tuesday 5 October 1920 · page 10

A few minutes after midnight last Thursday the body of Dorothy Ashenden, aged 36, married, was found lying on the footpath outside Ellis's…

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Engineer Injured

Evening News · Thursday 7 October 1920 · page 5

Allin Brain, 24, an engineer of Loganavenue, Haberfield, was working an emery wheel at Raine and Thompson's works in Lower Bayview-street,…

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Casualties. Fatal Tram Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 October 1920 · page 8

Mr. William Marshall Moore, a resident of Drummoyne for 23 years, and formerly a planter in Fiji, whose eyesight had almost failed, received…

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Accident on Steamer Tahiti. Vancouver, October 5

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 7 October 1920 · page 5

Owing to an accident in the engine-room on Sunday, when midway between Suva and Honolulu, the steamer Tahiti was unable to use hor full engine power, and she will…

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Accident or Design? Uncompleted Liner Burned. London, October 6

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 7 October 1920 · page 5

A message from Berlin States that a fire destroyed the interior of the Bismarck, the world's largest liner, which was nearing completion at Hamburg, and was to have been…

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Mysterious Drowning Bootmaker's Disappearance

Evening News · Friday 8 October 1920 · page 4

on September 21 Walter Edward Herd, bootmaker, aged 21, left his home in [?]-street, Drummo[?] apparently with the intention of going to his work…

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Engineer Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 October 1920 · page 8

Owen Brain (24), an engineer, living at Logan Avenue, Haberfield, was working on an emery wheel at his business premises in View Street, M'Mahon's Point, yesterday morning, when it…

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Engine-driver Injured

The Propeller · Friday 8 October 1920 · page 4

Kenneth Thompson, an engine-driver, while attending to his engine at Hurstville Railway Station his week, by some means got one of his…

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Holiday Motor Smash. Four Persons Injured

The Propeller · Friday 8 October 1920 · page 1

On Eight Hour Day a motor lorry containing a picnic party of 21 persons, fell over a cliff about 50 feet high on the Woronora road,…

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Misadventures. a Terrible Fall Three Women Injured

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 8 October 1920 · page 4

A party of about twenty persons from Ar[?] had a narrow escape from death on Eight-hour Day. They were being driven to National Park…

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Drowned in Camp Cove Open Verdict Suffered From Insomnia

The Sun · Friday 8 October 1920 · page 4

Yesterday week Constable Cantwell found the dead body of a man floating in the water at Camp Cove, near Lang Point. It was taken to the morgue,…

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Shire and Municipality Legal Opinions. ROADS. Accident on Road

The Land · Friday 8 October 1920 · page 16

Case.—I am instructed by my Council to obtain the opinion of the Association's solicitor in respect to a claim macle by a resident, for an…

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Our Serial Story (All Rights) Reserved.) The Burning Heart. Chapter Xvii. a Kind of Accident

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 8 October 1920 · page 2

It was late that night when Kohn alighted at Marshpool Station, and he walked along the sands as Dudley once had done, to Curlew Rise. It was very…

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Risks People Take Petersham Train Accident

The Sun · Friday 8 October 1920 · page 2

"One of those risks that people will take," remarked the City Coroner, Mr. Jamieson, this morning, referring to the cause of the death of Joseph Francis…

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