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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1922

2,680 stories in Sydney's papers · page 34 of 134

Boy Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 March 1922 · page 10

While sitting at the end of a wharf at Dawes Point yesterday afternoon Charlie Beckman, 7, of 37 Windmill-street, Miller's Point, was badly crushed between the wharf…

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Child Drowned at Balmain

Evening News · Thursday 9 March 1922 · page 1

Left by her mother playing with some other children in the vicinity of Grove-street, Balmain, Rosetta Joyce Horlock, aged 6 years, who lived in Phillip-street,…

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Jockey Injured Bathurst

Evening News · Thursday 9 March 1922 · page 6

Toxas Boy, in the Flying Handicap at Wimbledon Racop, slumbled and unscated his rider. Earl Flyan, whom he dragged about 50 yards along the track…

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Butcher Injured. Wagga

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 March 1922 · page 10

Joseph Hanson, master butcher, who is over 60 years of age, ascended a ladder to adjust protion of the machinery at his works. The ladder slipped, and in falling Hanson's…

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Taxi Crashes Woman Killed, Man Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 9 March 1922 · page 5

Through the jambing of the steering gear a taxi cab, driven by John Claude Davis (24), of Restwell Street, Bankstown, got out of control in Darley Road, near Govett Street, Randwick,…

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Fatal Collision. Two Motor Cars. One Woman Killed. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 March 1922 · page 9

A dance at St. Kilda and a party at Collingwood preceded a sonsational motor-car collision at the intersection of Johnston-street and Brunswick-street, Fitzroy, shortly before…

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Motor Smash. at Randwick. Woman Killed and Man Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 March 1922 · page 9

As the result of a motor smash in Darley-road, Randwick, late last night, a woman was killed and a man is in a critical condition at St. Vincent's Hospital…

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Taken from Hospital Though Fatally Injured Allegation at an Inquest

Evening News · Thursday 9 March 1922 · page 3

A serious allegation against a hospital staff was made at the Coroner's Court to-day. John Gilehrist Farley, of 46…

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Explosion. Deaths Total 13. Injured Badly Disfigured. London, March 7

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 March 1922 · page 9

The death roll as a result of the explosion at Port Tipton, Staffordshire, now totals 13. Several others are in a precarious condition. All are in their teens, some having just left…

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Crushed to Death Taxi=Cab Accident Woman Killed Instantly

The Sun · Thursday 9 March 1922 · page 2

A collision between a taxi-cab and a tram current post, in Darley-road, near Govett-street, Randwick, about 9.30 p.m., yesterday, resulted in the death…

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Car Over Cliff Death of Owner Accident at Cronulla

The Sun · Thursday 9 March 1922 · page 8

Walter J. A. Hodgkinson, who lived in Waratah-street, Cronulla, and was formelly proprietor of the Port Hacking Ferry Co., died in the St. George…

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Narrabeen Fatality

Evening News · Friday 10 March 1922 · page 6

A man named Wheelers met with a fatal accident late yesterday afternoon at Narrabeen. It appears that he was approaching a moving motor lorry, with…

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Drowned at Lugarno

The Propeller · Friday 10 March 1922 · page 2

A drowning fatality occurred at Lugarno, George's River, last Sunday, the victim being George Metton, aged 35 years, who resided at Tempe. He was…

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OVERBOARD Supposed Drowning BRISBANE

The Sun · Friday 10 March 1922 · page 7

It is believed that a bank clerk named Edward O'Shea was drowned in Brisbane River, near Dutton's Park, last night. He was in a motor-boat…

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Fatality at Picture Show

The Propeller · Friday 10 March 1922 · page 2

A sad fatality occurred at the Hurstville Picture Palace on Monday afternoon last, which resulted in the death of Mr. Richard M. Simmons, the…

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A Motor Collision a Driver Convicted

Evening News · Friday 10 March 1922 · page 3

As the result of a collision which occurred between two motor cars in Oxford-street, Woollahra, Cyril willfred Fitch appeared before Acting Judge…

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His Last Swim a Yance Schoolboy Drowned

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 10 March 1922 · page 4

While a number of students from the recently established agricultrual high school at yance (N.S.W) were bathing in the Murrumbidgee River on…

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Thrown From His Horse a Grong Grong Fatality

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 10 March 1922 · page 4

A farm laburor named James Carle was killed near Grong Grong (N.S.W.) on Saturday last While carle was riding a horse the animal stumbled…

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'Roo and Candidate Country Road Collision BATHURST

The Sun · Friday 10 March 1922 · page 6

The kangaroo is famed for cricket and football activities, but it took the present election to bring him out of the bush into the political arena. Mr. A…

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ADMIRALTY (Before Mr. Justice Street,) Collision at Newcastle

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 March 1922 · page 5

This was a consolidated suit arising from the collision between the steamers Queen Bee and Moorabool, in Newcastle Harbor, on October 27, 1920. The Moorabool's propeller struck the…

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