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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1922

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Accidental Death. Rooty Hill Fatality

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 28 January 1922 · page 7

At Parramatta Courthouse on Tuesday, Mr. A. W. Judges, coroner from Penrith, resumed the inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Thomas…

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Casualties. Launch Fatality

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 January 1922 · page 16

An Inquiry was held by the City Coroner(Mr. Jamieson) yesterday, regarding the death of Alfred Henry Hasemer, 42, a company director, living at Mosman. Deceased was drowned,…

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Railway Fatality. Penrith

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 January 1922 · page 16

A railway accident occurred at Penrith on Thursday night, resulting in the death of Vera Gordon, aged l8 years. The deceased, with two companions, was walking along the line from…

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Found Drowned Mackay

The Sun · Saturday 28 January 1922 · page 8

The dead body of a man was found floating in the Pioneer River to-day. From certain belongings marked J. McCann, it is presumed that the man…

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Fatal Collision. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 January 1922 · page 14

A collinion which occuircd at Young Walls-end yesterday beteen a motor lorry and an sulky resulted in the death ot a man and the injuring of his wife and family…

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Killed at Kingswood. Railway Fatality

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 28 January 1922 · page 7

At 7.30 p.m. on Wednesday last a girl named Vera Gordon, aged 18 years, Was killed by a fast train to the Mountains. Deceased was walking along the line alone…

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Another Tragedy. Hospital Patient Drowned

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 28 January 1922 · page 6

In the early hours of Thursday morning —shortly after midnight in fact— man was seen to leave the Parramatta District Hospital, and direct his steps toward the…

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Young Woman Drowned. Armidale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 January 1922 · page 16

A drawning accident occurred yesterday afternoon at Tilbuster Creek, about five miles from Armidale. Miss Eleanor May Noakes, sewing mistress of the Technical school…

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Man Drowned at Lavender Bay

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 January 1922 · page 14

While fishing from an ash punt at Lavender Bay wharf about 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, Arthur Warman, 27, residing in Walker-street, North Sydney, fell into the water,…

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Three Accidents Mix-up at Kogarah Young Woman Injured

The Sun · Saturday 28 January 1922 · page 7

A horse was killed, a sulky smashed to pieces, a young woman injured, a tram derailed, and a man run over through walking in front of an…

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Women Injured Alleged Assault

The Sun · Saturday 28 January 1922 · page 6

Two women were taken from Mulford-street, Chippendale, to Prince Alfred Hospital, last night, by the Civil Ambulance. One was suffering from…

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Fireman Injured Salvage at Lassetter's

The Sun · Saturday 28 January 1922 · page 6

During the salvage operations after the fire at Messrs. Lassetter and Co.'s premises yesterday, Fireman Arthur Lang, attache to the Randwick…

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Launch Capsizes Three Persons Drowned Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 January 1922 · page 9

Disastrous results attended an excursion of holiday makers in a motor launch to the Victorian Aborigines' Mission Station on the shores of Lakes Tyers…

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Motor Car Smash [?] Persons Injured [?]

Evening News · Saturday 28 January 1922 · page 6

When a water can [?] four men was turning from Maltland-road into [?]…

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"Not for a Fiver." Boy's Strange Testimony. Inquiry Into Drowning Case

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 28 January 1922 · page 6

"A man was fishing on the wall, about two or three yards from where my brother had fallen in. I asked the man to hop in and get him out. He said he wouldn't…

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Mysterious Crash Two Expresses Damaged One Killed; 13 Injured London

The Sun · Saturday 28 January 1922 · page 5

The Glasgow,-London and Euston[?]Birmingham expresses, when passing each other at Blisworthf[?] simultaneously struck an unknown object in the…

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Serious Accident

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 28 January 1922 · page 5

On Saturday, 21st inst., Mrs. Porter was driving home to Hoxton Park, when her horse shied, and she was thrown, out of the sulky and sustained two broken ribs…

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A Painful Accident

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 28 January 1922 · page 5

Mrs. Harry Gibb, that. charitable lady, who, with her husband, is always one of the town's most ardent workers, whether. for Red Cross, charities, church or…

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Young Girl Killed Another Railway Accident

Nepean Times · Saturday 28 January 1922 · page 2

The lengthy list of traffic happening associated with the railway line in the Nepean district has been added to by a fatality that occurred between…

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