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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1920

2,067 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 104

Swept Off Rocks Fatality at Dee Why Woman Drowned

The Sun · Monday 26 January 1920 · page 5

While Miss Helen Gilchrist, aged 26, who lived in Macquarie-street, Leichhardt, was fishing on the rooks between Curl Curl and Dee Why with a…

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Motor Fatality Taxi-driver Charged

The Sun · Monday 26 January 1920 · page 5

Roy Barridge Brown, aged 28, a taxi-driver, who was arrested in connection with the death of a man whose name is unknown, was before the Central…

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Three Tragedies Four Persons Drowned Two Women and Two Soldiers [?]

Evening News · Monday 26 January 1920 · page 1

A number of bathers were washed out in the surft at [?] Park yesterday afternoon and a returned soldier. Charles Pobble of Petersham-road…

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Tragedy at Palm Beach. Two Persons Drowned. Gallant Officer's Life Lost

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 26 January 1920 · page 4

Johanna Mary Rogers (32), a single woman, lately residing at Leichhardt, was drowned in the surf at Palm Beach, near Borrenjooy, yesterday, and Lieutenant-Colonel Douglas Marks…

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Chapter of Accidents

Evening News · Monday 26 January 1920 · page 4

If you think you have worries and bad luck—ponder over this, says the "New York Herald," John Murphy, an employee of the St. Paul Gas Light…

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Value of X-rays Diminishing Railway Accidents Even Extended to Art

Evening News · Monday 26 January 1920 · page 4

The X-ray to most of us conjures up visions of white-robed nurses, surgeons, and hospital operating rooms. But to-day the X-ray discovered by Wilhelm…

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Returned Soldier Drowned. at Stanwell Park

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 January 1920 · page 6

Charles Dabbie, a returned soldier, lately living at Petersham-road, Marrickville, was drowned in the surf on Sunday. A party of eight boys and girls went to Stanwell Park…

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Village Mystery Triple Fatality Soldier, Sweetheart, Sister

The Sun · Tuesday 27 January 1920 · page 2

In the grounds of Springfield Grange, a large house about three miles from Great Missenden (Eng.), an ex-soldier and his sweetheart were found with…

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Drowned at Dee Why. Woman Washed Off Rocks

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 27 January 1920 · page 5

A drowning fatality occurred on the rocks between Curl Curl and Doe Why yesterday morning, the victim being Miss Helen Gilchrist. 27 years of age, residing at No. 8…

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Washed Off Rocks. Girl Drowned at Dee Why

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 January 1920 · page 6

The rocks at Dee Why were the scene o[?] fatality yesterday. At about half past 9 o'clock Miss Helen Grear Gilchrist was fishing with a friend named J. H. Fox at the foot of the…

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Motor Cycling. Rider Seriously Injured. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 January 1920 · page 8

Lithgow Motor Cycle Club's races were held on the Hartley course to-day. In the 33 miles race Palmer, of Sydney, riding a [?].p. Indian, attempted to turn a corner too quickly, and fell, fracturing a thigh and…

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Narrandera Tragedy Woman Shot Dead Husband Injured NARRANDERA

Evening News · Tuesday 27 January 1920 · page 1

Mrs Wrights wife of Fredrick Ewen Wright, a local [?] was found dead on Sunday night [?] was caused by a bullet from a shotgun…

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Fatal Burning Accident

Evening News · Tuesday 27 January 1920 · page 1

Mrs Mary Berger in wife of a owns at [?] near Temora died in a private hospital yesterday from burns She was using a spirit heated…

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Casualties. Fatal Motor Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 January 1920 · page 7

The body of the man who received fatal injuries on Saturday afternoon as the result of being knocked down by a motor car in Flinders-street. Darlinghurst, was yesterday…

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Schoolboy Drowned Mate's Plucky Efforts

Evening News · Wednesday 28 January 1920 · page 4

The death of Charles Ernest Gifford a twelve-year-old schoolboy at the Roseville Batha on January 19, formed the subject of an inquiry before the Acting…

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Drowned While Fishing. a Woman Washed Off the Rocks

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 28 January 1920 · page 4

On Monday morning last a youngman named Helen Gilehrist was fishing off the rocks at Dee Why (Sydney), with a friend named Mr. J.H. Fox,…

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A Picnic's Sad End. a Man Drowned at Stanwell Park

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 28 January 1920 · page 4

A returned soldier named diaries Dobbie, of Marrickville (Sydney), was drowned in the surf at Stanwell Park on Monday. He was one of a picnic…

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Defied the Sharks Daring Life Savers Stanwell Park Drowning Eye-witness' Graphic Story

The Sun · Wednesday 28 January 1920 · page 5

When Mr. A. W. Albers, of Bond-street, city, returned yesterday from week's holiday at Stanwell Park he gave the full story of the remarkably…

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Misadventures. the Shocking Death of a Resident of Yass. a Motor Fatality

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 28 January 1920 · page 4

A well-known resident of the Yass (N.S.W.) district, Mr. J. Winter, was motoring along the Good Hope-road, about live miles from Yass, on…

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Bathing Tragedies a Sad Double Fatality at Palm Beach. a Heroic Death

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 28 January 1920 · page 4

A returned soldier named Lieut. Col. Douglas G. Marks lost his life in a gallant but unsuccessful attempt to rescue a young woman named Miss J…

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