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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1923

3,212 stories in Sydney's papers · page 25 of 161

Drowned in Drain Baby Caught in Current Byron Bay

The Sun · Wednesday 21 February 1923 · page 3

The 15-months-old daughtor of Mr, and Mrs. Brown, Byron Bay, was washed away and drowned yesterday, in the…

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The Country Motors Collide Several People Injured BOWRAL

The Sun · Wednesday 21 February 1923 · page 10

A head-on collision between two motor cars occurred yesterday on the Bowral-Moss Vale road, about half a mile on the Bowral side of Bong Bong…

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Tragic Gun Accident. Clarence Town

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 February 1923 · page 14

A tragic accident happened at Glen Martin, four miles from Clarence Town, on Saturday afternoon, Mr. H. Truse losing his life. It appears that he stated earlier in the day…

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Misfortune's Victim Athlete's Accidents BATHURST

The Sun · Wednesday 21 February 1923 · page 10

While walking along the railway line at the Bathurst railway station Bruce Wallace, aged 22, a clerk at the locomotive shed, was run down by a…

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Child Drowned Byron Bay

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 22 February 1923 · page 8

While playing at the back of her parents' residence in Shirley Lane, Byron Bay, a 15 months-old girl (Rose Brown) was accidentally drowned in the main…

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Under Tram Boy Injured Fatally

Evening News · Thursday 22 February 1923 · page 4

[?] of Sutherland [?] was injured fatally last night when he [?] under a tram that [?]…

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Motor Car Fatality. Charge Against Driver. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 22 February 1923 · page 10

Having completed Christmas shopping on the morning of December 23, a party of young women was returning home in a motor car driven by Trevor Driver, son of Mr. Reynolds…

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Followed the Beer Man Goes Overboard Strange Drowning Case Melbourne

The Sun · Thursday 22 February 1923 · page 7

Did Leslie Matthews drown, himself because his mother threw his beer into the sea? This is the question that confronted the Coroner to-day…

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Motor Car and Train. Collision at a Crossing. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 22 February 1923 · page 9

Mr. R. H. Koth, of Uranquinty, near Wagga (N.S.W.), who has been visiting South Australia, was proceeding in a motor car to Maitland with his wife and [?]ly, when the…

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Lift Accident One Man Dies BRISBANE

Evening News · Thursday 22 February 1923 · page 1

Yesterday's lift accident at the [?] warehouse has ended fatally. Wheeler, one of the two injured men, died in the hospital this morning…

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Mother and Child Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 February 1923 · page 11

Mrs. Vera Fitzpatrick, of Atherton-street, Dawes Point, was endeavouring to grasp her two-year-old boy, who had wandered on to the tramline at Dawes Point, last night, when an…

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Drowned in A. Drain. Byron Bay

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 February 1923 · page 11

Rose Brown, aged 15 months, was drowned in a large drain which runs through the town. A small boy discovered the child floating in the water shortly after she was missed…

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Motor Mishaps Fatality at Yarra Gates Hotel-keeper Killed

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 23 February 1923 · page 4

A shocking motor accident, which terminated totally, occurred about six o'clock on Sunday evening near Yarra Gates (N.S.W.)…

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DISTRICT (Before Judge Cohen and juries.) Motors in Collision

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 23 February 1923 · page 5

Hearing was concluded of the action by Charles Lincoln Goatley, commercial traveller of 96 Mount Street, Coogee, against the council of the Municipality of…

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Baby Drowned Carried Away by Current a Dangerous Drain

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 23 February 1923 · page 4

The fifteen-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Brown, Byron Bay, was washed away and drowned on Tuesday afternoon last, in the Bilongel drain,…

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Mother's Brave Act Woman and Child Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 23 February 1923 · page 8

In an attempt to save her two-year-old son from being run down by a tram in George Street North last night, a woman was knocked down and…

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Record Making Motor-cyclist Injured Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 23 February 1923 · page 7

David Brewster, who set out to break the motor cycle record from Melbourne to Sydney met with an accident when a little over half-way between…

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Railway Tragedies Mangled Body on Line. Fatality at Port Waratah

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 23 February 1923 · page 4

The mangled body of Edward J. Taylor was found on the railway line at Port Waratah on Friday afternoon last. Taylor, who was thirty-live years…

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District Court. (Before Judge Cohen and a Jury.) Collision at Concord

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 February 1923 · page 6

Hearing was continued of the case in which Charles Lincoln Goatley, of 96 Mount-street, Coogee, commercial traveller, sued the Council of the Municipality of Concord for the recovery…

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Gun Accident Old Man's Tragic Death. The Forgotten Charge

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 23 February 1923 · page 4

A tragic accident happened at Glen Martin, four miles from Clarence Town, last Saturday afternoon, Mr. H. Truse losing his life. It appears that…

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