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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1923

3,212 stories in Sydney's papers · page 42 of 161

Car Behind Man Struck Down Randwick Accident

Evening News · Monday 9 April 1923 · page 9

Concussion, both thighs fractured, incrated head wounds and abrasions to both legs, where injuries received by Ernest Lesile Chescoe, who was…

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Motoring Accident. Minister's Escape. Fremantle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 April 1923 · page 10

A motor car containing the Federal Minister for Works (Mr. Stewart) and Mrs. Stewart, and Major and Mrs. Newcombe, collided with an electric light pole while proceeding from…

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Four Deaths Accidents in Victoria Cyclists' Fateful Week-end MELBOURNE

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 April 1923 · page 4

The week-end accidents included three violent deaths. Lewis Rowsell, 21, of Mordialloc, while riding his motor-cycle along the…

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Casualties. Schoolboy Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 April 1923 · page 10

John Craig, 10, a schoolboy, who resides in St. Paul's-road, Newtown, was looking out of a window at his home yesterday afternoon, when the window fell, its wooden framework…

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DISTRICT (Before Judge Cohen.) Vehicles in Collision

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 April 1923 · page 9

Thomas Beckett, of 28 Pearl Street, Newtown, sued Cornelius O'Keefe, of Gordon Street, Mascot, to recover £200 damages for alleged negligence on the…

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District Court. (Before Judge Cohen.) Collision on Stanmore-road

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 April 1923 · page 6

This was an action in which Thomas Beckett, of 28 Pearl-street, Newtown, claimed £200 damages from Cornelius O Keefe, of Gordon-street, Mascot, for alleged negligence…

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Did the "Splits" Little Girl Injured Instructor Charged Melbourne

The Sun · Tuesday 10 April 1923 · page 8

A little girl's broken leg, bodily bruises, and hemorrhage of the right eye were explained at the North Melbourne Police Court to-day by her…

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Tram Accidents

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 April 1923 · page 10

Mrs. Nellie Caddy, aged 23 years, who resides in Wattle-street, Ultimo, was knocked down by a tram while crossing Central-square late yesterday afternoon. The Civil…

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Accidents at the Show

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 April 1923 · page 10

Over 200 eases were dealt with by the Civil Ambulance at the show. Assisted by 20 voluntary nurses stationed at various parts of the grounds a special body of ambulance…

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Wise to Insure. Self-Help by Policies. Accidents Will Occur

Sydney Sportsman · Tuesday 10 April 1923 · page 7

Until an insurance or provident fund is established, owners and trainers' are recommended by the council of the Breeders, Owners and Trainers'…

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Accidents

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 April 1923 · page 2

TAREE. -- There was a chapter of accidents here at the week-end. Miss Essie Butcher, a visitor from West Maitland, was driving in a sulky when the wheel…

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Accidents

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 April 1923 · page 6

Harry Dow, aged 75, an old-age pensioner, living in Mullen Street, Balmain, was engaged cleaning the spouting on the roof at his home yesterday, when the…

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Baby's Luck Escapes in Collision

Evening News · Wednesday 11 April 1923 · page 10

A Collision which occurred in Centerbury-road, Belmore, at 6 p.m. yesterday between a sulky and car, was remarkable for the…

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Sequel to Accident. Death in Mental Hospital

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 11 April 1923 · page 5

At the Parramatta Mental Hospital. on Friday, the district coroner (Mr. H. Richardson Clark) held an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of…

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Children Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 12 April 1923 · page 5

Running away, from her mother in Concord Road, Conford, yesterday afternoon,Joyce Osborne, a five-year-old girl, who lives with her parents in…

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Playing in Street Boy Injured

Evening News · Thursday 12 April 1923 · page 7

Extensive injuries were sustained by Victor Levi, 8 of H. [?] street, Bondi as a result of being run down near his home yesterday by a man on a bicycle…

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Accident Proves Fatal

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 12 April 1923 · page 4

Edward John Carter, aged 24. of Gurner Street, Paddington, who received serious injuries when his motor cycle collided with a dog and cupsised in…

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Injured by a Collision. (Before Mr. Justice James.)

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 April 1923 · page 5

Evidence was concluded in the action In which John William Battin claimed £400 compensation from William Catts for Injuries received in a collision on…

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COLLISION Pantechnicon and Tram

The Sun · Friday 13 April 1923 · page 7

A tram collided with a pantechnicon in Parramatta-road, near Mallett street. Camperdown, this morning, with the result that the pantechnicon, which…

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Fatality at Bankstown. Old Man Kicked by Horse

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 13 April 1923 · page 4

While an old man named Thomas Whitehall, sixty-two years of ago, Was driving a horse attached to a spring cart along james street, Bankstown, on…

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