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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1921

2,615 stories in Sydney's papers · page 36 of 131

Death of Miss Coyle Due to Accident Coroner's Finding Angry Passages

The Sun · Thursday 31 March 1921 · page 10

The City Coroner (Mr. [?]amieson), the medical superintendent of Sydney Hospital (Dr. Perry), and Mr. J. P. Sheridan, the well-known…

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Cronulla Boating Fatality

The Propeller · Friday 1 April 1921 · page 1

Mr. Oswald Green, 27, a painter, residing with his parents at Rockdale, lost his life through a boat capsizing off the surf beach at Cronulla on Good…

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Motor-car Fatality

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 April 1921 · page 11

The City Coroner's inquiry into the death of Patricia Coyle, who died on March 19 from injuries received through being knocked down by a motor-car in King-street, was…

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Man Found Drowned

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 April 1921 · page 11

The body of a man, afterwards Identified as that of Franklin Gilroy Kerr, of Edgebrae, Ross-street, North Sydney, was found floating near Milson's Point wharf yesterday…

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Injured Jockeys

Evening News · Friday 1 April 1921 · page 4

St. Vincent's Hospital reported that Mooney, the jockey, who was seriously injured on Monday, was not very well this afternoon. His three companions…

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Drowned at Long Bay

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 April 1921 · page 11

Efforts to recover the body of Milford George Burgess aged 33, formerly a member of the Australian Flying Corps, who was drowned at Long Bay on Sunday last, have…

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Fireman Drowned. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 April 1921 · page 11

While returning to the steamer Junee at the Stanley Wharf last night, D. Pellerin, a single man, whose home port is Sydney, fell into the river and was drownod. The…

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A Nowra Fatality. a Mall Contractor's Fall

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 1 April 1921 · page 4

On Good Friday, a Nowra (N.S.W.) resident, Mr. G. A. Travanion, was riding on the running board of his motor-car, when he fell and fractured…

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Cronulla Drowning "A Big Wave Came and--" Schoolboy Tells Story

The Sun · Friday 1 April 1921 · page 6

In the unpolished language of a 10- year- old schoolboy, the story of the boating fatality at Cronulia on Good Friday was told to the City Coroner…

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Fishing Party Upset. a Man Drowned at Cronulla

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 1 April 1921 · page 4

While a party, consisting of a young man named Oswald Green and three boys named Harry and Frank Wilkes, and Reg, Markham, were fishing off…

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Motor-car Fatality. Death of Miss Coyle. the Coroner's Verdict

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 1 April 1921 · page 8

Miss Patricia Margaret Coyle (34), cousin of Mr. Coyle, K.C., Crown Prosecutor, was knocked down by a motor-car in King Street, City, on March 19, and died shortly after her…

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Cronulla Fatality Boat Capsized in Surf Praise for Surf Club's Work

Evening News · Friday 1 April 1921 · page 5

An inquest was held to-day by Mr. Jamleson City Coronor, regarding [?] Green, 27, a painter, Segenhoe-street, Arncliffe, the victim of a boating…

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A Silo Bursts. Strange Accident on a Farm

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 1 April 1921 · page 4

A strange accident occurred at Mr. S. W. Bates's farm at [?], in the Tilba Tilba (N.S.W.) district, last week. A silo, that had been filled…

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Driving Accident. Bathurst

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 April 1921 · page 11

Mr. Michael Murphy, 55, of Killonbutta, about 12 miles from Bathurst, was driving a team of horses down a steep grade when they became startled and bolted. The driver…

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Another River Fatality Penrith[?]lad Drowned

Nepean Times · Saturday 2 April 1921 · page 1

The Nepean River, which, with all its beauty, has been the scene of various tragic happenings, has claimed yet another victim…

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Injured Jockeys

Evening News · Saturday 2 April 1921 · page 5

[?] who was injured at Randwick on Monday last, has [?]…

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Found Drowned. An Old Man's Death

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 2 April 1921 · page 1

On Wednesday evening. March 23rd, the body of a man was found floating in the river opposite the wharf in George-street, near the sewerage pumping…

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DISTRICT. (Before Judge Backhouse.) Motor Vehicles in Collision

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 2 April 1921 · page 9

Reserved judgment was delivered in the case in which Harold Sydney Joseph Morelli, of Bright Street, Marrickville, engineer, sued Christian Frederick Hains, of Metropolitan…

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Collision at Sea. Steamer Sunk. Vancouver, April 1

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 April 1921 · page 13

The Admiral line's passenger steamer Governor, while bound from San Francisco to Seattle, came into collision with the Westhartland, bound from Vancouver to Bombay,…

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Liner Sunk Collision in Fog Nineteen Persons Missing VANCOUVER

Evening News · Saturday 2 April 1921 · page 1

The Admiral line's passenger steamer Governor, 5475 tons, while [?] from San Francisco to Seattle, came into collision, during a fog at…

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